Elizabethton, TN 37682 Frost Dates
37682, near Elizabethton, TN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 190 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
Elizabethton's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elizabethton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Elizabethton places 21,075 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 655 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37682: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Elizabethton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Elizabethton's dates instead of trusting one.