Bean Station, TN 37811 Frost Dates
37811, near Bean Station, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Bean Station 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
Bean Station'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
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bean Station against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Bean Station places 20,358 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 625 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37811: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Bean Station's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bean Station's dates instead of trusting one.