Arlington, TN 38028 Frost Dates
38028, near Arlington, TN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/29, roughly 213 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Arlington in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Arlington's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Arlington against the rest of the dataset
Arlington's growing season runs about 220 days, ranking 12,754 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 131 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38028: the frost range, on how to read the range around Arlington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Arlington can differ from the 38028 normal.