Niota, TN 37826 Frost Dates
37826, near Niota, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 208 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 Niota, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Niota'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 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Niota against the rest of the dataset
Niota's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,698 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 390 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37826: the frost range, on how to read the range around Niota's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Niota can differ from the 37826 normal.