Elizabethton, TN 37644 Frost Dates
Elizabethton, TN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Elizabethton 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Elizabethton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elizabethton against the rest of the dataset
Elizabethton's growing season runs about 170 days, ranking 28,937 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 764 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37644's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Elizabethton can differ from the 37644 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Elizabethton's frost date answer different questions.