Gordonsville, TN 38552 Frost Dates
Gordonsville, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Gordonsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Gordonsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gordonsville's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gordonsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Gordonsville places 17,557 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 545 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38552's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gordonsville can differ from the 38552 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Gordonsville's frost date answer different questions.