Bartlett, TN 38134 Frost Dates
38134, near Bartlett, 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 Bartlett 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
Bartlett'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.
The actual range around Bartlett's last frost
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.
Bartlett against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 223 frost-free days, Bartlett places 12,005 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 94 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38134: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Bartlett's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bartlett's dates instead of trusting one.