Brownsville, TN 38012 Frost Dates
Brownsville, TN: when does the frost end?
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Brownsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Brownsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Brownsville's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brownsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Brownsville places 12,481 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 122 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38012's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Brownsville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Brownsville can differ from the 38012 normal.