Pleasant Hill, TN 38578 Frost Dates
Pleasant Hill, TN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pleasant Hill in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Pleasant Hill'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
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pleasant Hill against the rest of the dataset
About 185 days separate Pleasant Hill's last and first frost, putting it 23,282 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 719 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38578's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pleasant Hill's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pleasant Hill's dates instead of trusting one.