Mount Pleasant, TN 38474 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mount Pleasant, TN, ZIP 38474
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 204 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mount Pleasant in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Mount Pleasant has about 9 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 Mount Pleasant's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mount Pleasant compares
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Mount Pleasant places 16,582 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 464 of 770.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Mount Pleasant's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Mount Pleasant can differ from the 38474 normal.