Gordonsville, TN 38569 Frost Dates
38569, near Gordonsville, TN: the frost window
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
Gordonsville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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 17,560 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 548 of 770.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38569: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Gordonsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Gordonsville's dates instead of trusting one.