Tiptonville, TN 38077 Frost Dates
Tiptonville, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Tiptonville 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 Tiptonville'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
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tiptonville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Tiptonville places 11,015 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 86 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38077's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Tiptonville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Tiptonville's dates instead of trusting one.