Livingston, TN 38542 Frost Dates
38542, near Livingston, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Livingston sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Livingston'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.
The actual range around Livingston's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Livingston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Livingston places 19,265 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 574 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38542: the frost range, on how to read the range around Livingston's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Livingston can differ from the 38542 normal.