Cleveland, TN 37364 Frost Dates
37364, near Cleveland, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 230 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 Cleveland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cleveland's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
Cleveland's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,310 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 58 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37364: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cleveland can differ from the 37364 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Cleveland's frost date answer different questions.