Paris, TN 38223 Frost Dates
38223, near Paris, TN: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Paris in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Paris's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paris against the rest of the dataset
About 206 days separate Paris's last and first frost, putting it 15,977 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 416 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38223: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Paris's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Paris's dates instead of trusting one.