Woodland Mills, TN 38271 Frost Dates
38271, near Woodland Mills, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Woodland Mills 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
Woodland Mills'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.
Why 04/03 isn't a guarantee
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodland Mills against the rest of the dataset
Woodland Mills's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,875 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 313 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38271: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Woodland Mills's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Woodland Mills's dates instead of trusting one.