Fayetteville, TN 37348 Frost Dates
37348, near Fayetteville, TN: the frost window
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.
Fayetteville sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fayetteville'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.
The actual range around Fayetteville's last frost
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.
Fayetteville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Fayetteville places 20,253 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 618 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37348: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fayetteville can differ from the 37348 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Fayetteville's frost date answer different questions.