Jefferson City, TN 37760 Frost Dates
Jefferson City, TN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Jefferson City 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 Jefferson City'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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jefferson City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Jefferson City places 26,826 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 753 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 37760's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Jefferson City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Jefferson City's dates instead of trusting one.