Centerville, TN 38454 Frost Dates
38454, near Centerville, TN: the frost window
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Centerville 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
Centerville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Centerville against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Centerville's last and first frost, putting it 18,976 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 569 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38454: local microclimates, on what one yard in Centerville can differ from the 38454 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Centerville's frost date answer different questions.