Gordonsville, TN 38563 Frost Dates
Gordonsville, 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.
Gordonsville 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 Gordonsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Gordonsville's growing season runs about 201 days, ranking 17,558 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 546 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38563's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Gordonsville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Gordonsville's dates instead of trusting one.