Carthage, TN 38560 Frost Dates
Carthage, TN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Carthage sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Carthage's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Carthage'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.
Carthage against the rest of the dataset
Carthage's growing season runs about 201 days, ranking 17,530 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 542 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38560's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Carthage can differ from the 38560 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Carthage's frost date answer different questions.