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Michie, TN 38326 Frost Dates

38326, near Michie, TN: the frost window

Zone 7b

Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Michie 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

Michie'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 Michie's last frost

03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Michie against the rest of the dataset

About 212 days separate Michie's last and first frost, putting it 14,653 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 285 of 770.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 38326: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Michie's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Michie's dates instead of trusting one.