Last Frost Day

Frost history / Chickamauga Pk Larc, GA

Chickamauga Pk Larc, GA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00091908, 2002 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 782 ft, 34.920, -85.271. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Nov 2
EarliestMar 23 (2004)Oct 14 (2006)
LatestApr 26 (2005)Nov 15 (2015)
Trend5.9 days later per decade2.5 days later per decade
Years with data1012

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1520102002: Apr 82003: Apr 12004: Mar 232005: Apr 262007: Apr 102012: Apr 132013: Apr 202014: Apr 162015: Apr 62016: Apr 11

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620102002: Nov 22003: Nov 142004: Nov 62005: Oct 272006: Oct 142007: Nov 42011: Oct 222012: Nov 12013: Oct 252014: Nov 22015: Nov 152016: Nov 11

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2016Apr 11Nov 11Mar 23Nov 11
2015Apr 6Nov 15Mar 30Nov 23
2014Apr 16Nov 2Mar 27Nov 3
2013Apr 20Oct 25Mar 29Oct 26
2012Apr 13Nov 1Mar 6Nov 16
2011no dataOct 22no dataNov 11
2007Apr 10Nov 4Apr 9Nov 8
2006no dataOct 14no dataOct 24
2005Apr 26Oct 27Mar 10Oct 29
2004Mar 23Nov 6Mar 23Nov 26
2003Apr 1Nov 14Mar 31Nov 25
2002Apr 8Nov 2Mar 28Nov 18

"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.