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Wartburg, TN 37887 Frost Dates

Wartburg, TN: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.

Wartburg sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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

With roughly 7 weeks until Wartburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Wartburg's last frost

04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Wartburg against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 177 frost-free days, Wartburg places 26,196 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 749 of 770.

Learn more

Before leaning on 37887's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wartburg can differ from the 37887 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Wartburg's frost date answer different questions.