Bells, TN 38006 Frost Dates
Bells, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Bells 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Bells's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bells's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bells against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 220 frost-free days, Bells places 12,825 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 132 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38006's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bells's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bells can differ from the 38006 normal.