Pikeville, TN 37367 Frost Dates
Pikeville, TN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pikeville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Pikeville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pikeville's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pikeville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 208 frost-free days, Pikeville places 15,658 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 379 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37367's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pikeville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pikeville can differ from the 37367 normal.