Milledgeville, TN 38359 Frost Dates
38359, near Milledgeville, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Milledgeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Milledgeville'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 03/31 isn't a guarantee
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.
Milledgeville against the rest of the dataset
About 212 days separate Milledgeville's last and first frost, putting it 14,683 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 292 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38359: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Milledgeville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Milledgeville's dates instead of trusting one.