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Soddy-Daisy, TN 37379 Frost Dates

Soddy-Daisy, TN: when does the frost end?

Zone 7b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Soddy-Daisy in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 10 weeks until Soddy-Daisy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Soddy-Daisy's last frost

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.

Soddy-Daisy against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 230 frost-free days, Soddy-Daisy places 10,338 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 64 of 770.

Learn more

Before leaning on 37379's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Soddy-Daisy's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Soddy-Daisy can differ from the 37379 normal.