Millington, TN 38054 Frost Dates
38054, near Millington, TN: the frost window
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Millington 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
Millington'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 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Millington against the rest of the dataset
About 223 days separate Millington's last and first frost, putting it 12,049 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 104 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38054: local microclimates, on what one yard in Millington can differ from the 38054 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Millington's frost date answer different questions.