Medina, TN 38378 Frost Dates
Medina, TN: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Medina 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Medina's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Medina's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 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.
Medina against the rest of the dataset
Medina's growing season runs about 208 days, ranking 15,579 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 365 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38378's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Medina's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Medina can differ from the 38378 normal.