Baxter, TN 38545 Frost Dates
Baxter, TN: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Baxter in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Baxter's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Baxter's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Baxter against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Baxter places 23,880 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 728 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38545's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Baxter can differ from the 38545 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Baxter's frost date answer different questions.