Dresden, TN 38225 Frost Dates
38225, near Dresden, TN: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dresden 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
Dresden'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.
The actual range around Dresden's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dresden against the rest of the dataset
Dresden's growing season runs about 204 days, ranking 16,610 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 466 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38225: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Dresden's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dresden's dates instead of trusting one.