Pigeon Forge, TN 37863 Frost Dates
37863, near Pigeon Forge, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Pigeon Forge 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
Pigeon Forge'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.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
04/17 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 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pigeon Forge against the rest of the dataset
Pigeon Forge's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,526 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 676 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 37863: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pigeon Forge can differ from the 37863 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Pigeon Forge's frost date answer different questions.