Jellico, TN 40940 Frost Dates
Jellico, TN: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Jellico in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Jellico's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Jellico's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jellico against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Jellico's last and first frost, putting it 22,420 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TN, it ranks 704 of 770.
Learn more
Before leaning on 40940's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Jellico's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Jellico's dates instead of trusting one.