Frost dates for Shelby Bottoms Nature, Tennessee
Half of years have their last spring frost by April 1 — but 1 year in 10 still frosts after April 16.
Every other site gives you one date. A frost date is not a date: it is a percentile from 30 years of records at a nearby weather station, and planting to the median means losing the crop in half of years. Both numbers are below, so you can choose the risk yourself.
The odds
Last spring frost
- Frost this late in 1 year in 10
- April 16
- 1 year in 5
- April 11
- 3 years in 10
- April 7
- 2 years in 5
- April 4
- Half of years (the median)
- April 1
First fall freeze
- Freeze this early in 1 year in 10
- October 18
- 1 year in 5
- October 22
- 3 years in 10
- October 25
- 2 years in 5
- October 28
- Half of years (the median)
- October 31
- Growing season
- about 213 days
- Hardiness zones nearby
- 7a, 7b
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, station Shelby Bottoms Nature (USC00408238), at 36.17, -86.72. These are that station's own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground — the planner resolves the nearest station to your own ZIP and lowers its confidence with distance, rather than presenting one number as if it were measured in your yard.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a hundred metres away does not. No table can know that about your garden. Your own logged frosts eventually can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
37013, 37027, 37069, 37072, 37073, 37075, 37076, 37080, 37086, 37115, 37122, 37135, 37138, 37167, 37188, 37189, 37201, 37203, 37204, 37205, 37206, 37207, 37208, 37209, 37210, 37211, 37212, 37213, 37214, 37215, 37216, 37217, 37218, 37219, 37220, 37221, 37228, 37240, 37243, 37246.
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Nearby stations
The nearest stations, and how their last-frost dates compare — the frost gradient across your area, which no single station shows.
- Rochester Ferry, KY — last frost by April 15
- Huntsville Intl Ap, AL — last frost by March 24
- Chickamauga 2 Sw, GA — last frost by March 25
- Grand Chain Dam, IL — last frost by April 3
- Harrisburg Hcn, IL — last frost by April 7
- Norris, TN — last frost by April 22
Other stations in Tennessee.
- Memphis Wfo, TN — last frost by March 29
- Elizabethton, TN — last frost by April 19