Gates, TN 38037 Frost Dates
38037, near Gates, TN: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gates 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
Gates'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
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gates against the rest of the dataset
About 227 days separate Gates's last and first frost, putting it 11,052 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 87 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38037: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gates can differ from the 38037 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Gates's frost date answer different questions.