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Sevierville, TN 37764 Frost Dates

37764, near Sevierville, TN: the frost window

Zone 7b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Sevierville, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Sevierville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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

04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Sevierville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 205 frost-free days, Sevierville places 16,192 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 444 of 770.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 37764: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sevierville can differ from the 37764 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Sevierville's frost date answer different questions.