Mount Carmel, TN 37645 Frost Dates
Mount Carmel, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Mount Carmel 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 9 weeks until Mount Carmel's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mount Carmel's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Carmel against the rest of the dataset
Mount Carmel's growing season runs about 203 days, ranking 16,895 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 503 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37645's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Mount Carmel's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mount Carmel's dates instead of trusting one.