Scotts Hill, TN 38374 Frost Dates
38374, near Scotts Hill, TN: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Scotts Hill 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
Scotts Hill'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 Scotts Hill's last frost
04/04 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 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scotts Hill against the rest of the dataset
Scotts Hill's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,695 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 389 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38374: the frost range, on how to read the range around Scotts Hill's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Scotts Hill can differ from the 38374 normal.