Medon, TN 38391 Frost Dates
Medon, TN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 207 days after the last spring frost.
Medon 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Medon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Medon's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 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.
Medon against the rest of the dataset
Medon's growing season runs about 207 days, ranking 15,886 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 412 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38391's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Medon's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Medon can differ from the 38391 normal.