Livingston, TN 38568 Frost Dates
38568, near Livingston, TN: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Livingston sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Livingston's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Livingston against the rest of the dataset
Livingston's growing season runs about 195 days, ranking 19,267 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TN, it ranks 576 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38568: local microclimates, on what one yard in Livingston can differ from the 38568 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Livingston's frost date answer different questions.