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Sevierville, TN 37876 Frost Dates

Sevierville, TN: when does the frost end?

Zone 7b

Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sevierville in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Sevierville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Sevierville's last frost

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

Sevierville's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,196 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 448 of 770.

Learn more

Before leaning on 37876's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Sevierville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Sevierville's dates instead of trusting one.