Hohenwald, TN 38462 Frost Dates
Hohenwald, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 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 Hohenwald, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Hohenwald's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hohenwald'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 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hohenwald against the rest of the dataset
Hohenwald's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 15,010 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 332 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38462's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hohenwald's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hohenwald's dates instead of trusting one.