Lawrenceburg, TN 38468 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lawrenceburg, TN, ZIP 38468
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 219 frost-free days later.
Lawrenceburg 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Lawrenceburg has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lawrenceburg's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lawrenceburg compares
About 219 days separate Lawrenceburg's last and first frost, putting it 12,987 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 140 of 770.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Lawrenceburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Lawrenceburg's dates instead of trusting one.