Livingston, TN 38580 Frost Dates
Livingston, TN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Livingston's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/12 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Livingston places 19,269 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 578 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38580's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Livingston's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Livingston's dates instead of trusting one.