Last Frost Day

Frost history / Bethpage 1 S, TN

Bethpage 1 S, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00400669, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 560 ft, 36.458, -86.324. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 23
EarliestApr 1 (2003)Oct 3 (2003)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend1.4 days later per decade0.6 days later per decade
Years with data2024

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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 15201020202003: Apr 12004: Apr 152005: May 32006: Apr 112007: Apr 172008: Apr 292009: Apr 72010: Apr 112011: Apr 172012: Apr 132013: Apr 212015: Apr 52016: Apr 102017: Apr 82018: Apr 212019: Apr 32020: May 92021: Apr 222024: Apr 222025: Apr 10

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202001: Oct 172002: Nov 22003: Oct 32005: Oct 242006: Oct 132007: Nov 32008: Oct 262009: Oct 182010: Oct 292011: Oct 222012: Oct 312013: Nov 32014: Oct 52015: Oct 192016: Nov 102017: Oct 302018: Oct 212019: Nov 12020: Oct 172021: Nov 42022: Oct 92023: Oct 192024: Oct 172025: Oct 24

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
2025Apr 10Oct 24Mar 22Nov 10
2024Apr 22Oct 17Mar 20Nov 30
2023no dataOct 19no dataNov 1
2022no dataOct 9no dataOct 19
2021Apr 22Nov 4Apr 22Nov 4
2020May 9Oct 17Apr 16Nov 2
2019Apr 3Nov 1Mar 28Nov 1
2018Apr 21Oct 21Apr 17Nov 10
2017Apr 8Oct 30Mar 17Oct 30
2016Apr 10Nov 10Mar 22Nov 11
2015Apr 5Oct 19Mar 30Nov 14
2014no dataOct 5no dataNov 2
2013Apr 21Nov 3Mar 28Nov 8
2012Apr 13Oct 31Mar 6Oct 31
2011Apr 17Oct 22Feb 24Oct 29
2010Apr 11Oct 29Mar 8Oct 30
2009Apr 7Oct 18Mar 31Nov 26
2008Apr 29Oct 26Mar 26Oct 29
2007Apr 17Nov 3Apr 11Nov 7
2006Apr 11Oct 13Mar 27Oct 13
2005May 3Oct 24Mar 18Oct 24
2004Apr 15no dataApr 5no data
2003Apr 1Oct 3Apr 1Nov 14
2002no dataNov 2no dataNov 2
2001no dataOct 17no dataOct 27

"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.