Whiteville, TN 38045 Frost Dates
Whiteville, TN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
Whiteville 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 Whiteville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whiteville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Whiteville places 13,465 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 179 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38045's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Whiteville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Whiteville can differ from the 38045 normal.