Ridgely, TN 38080 Frost Dates
Ridgely, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Ridgely 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 Ridgely's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ridgely's last frost
03/24 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 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ridgely against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Ridgely places 10,427 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 77 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38080's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ridgely can differ from the 38080 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Ridgely's frost date answer different questions.