Stantonville, TN 38379 Frost Dates
38379, near Stantonville, TN: the frost window
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.
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 Stantonville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Stantonville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Stantonville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 212 frost-free days, Stantonville places 14,671 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 291 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38379: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Stantonville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Stantonville's dates instead of trusting one.