Memphis, TN 38157 Frost Dates
38157, near Memphis, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Memphis, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Memphis'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.
Memphis against the rest of the dataset
Memphis's growing season runs about 223 days, ranking 11,992 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 90 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38157: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Memphis's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Memphis's dates instead of trusting one.