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Huntland, TN 37328 Frost Dates

37328, near Huntland, TN: the frost window

Zone 7b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Huntland, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Huntland's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

How much risk comes with planting early here

04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Huntland against the rest of the dataset

About 192 days separate Huntland's last and first frost, putting it 20,480 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 641 of 770.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 37328: the frost range, on how to read the range around Huntland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Huntland can differ from the 37328 normal.