Baxter, TN 38582 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Baxter, TN, ZIP 38582
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 187 frost-free days later.
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 Baxter, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Baxter has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Baxter compares
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Baxter places 22,427 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TN, it ranks 706 of 770.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Baxter can differ from the 38582 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Baxter's frost date answer different questions.