Livingston, TN 38543 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Livingston, TN, ZIP 38543
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 195 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Livingston, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Livingston has about 8 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Livingston compares
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Livingston places 19,266 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 575 of 770.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Livingston's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Livingston can differ from the 38543 normal.