Big Sandy, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00400705, 1997 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 365 ft, 36.235, -88.091. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 15	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 19 (2017)	Oct 3 (2003)
Latest	Apr 29 (2008)	Nov 26 (2004)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	2.3 days later per decade
Years with data	26	27

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)

First fall frost (32°F)

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

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2025	Apr 9	Nov 3	Mar 22	Nov 10
2024	Apr 22	Oct 16	Mar 20	Nov 29
2023	Apr 24	Oct 31	Mar 20	Oct 31
2022	Apr 2	Oct 9	Mar 13	Oct 19
2021	Apr 3	no data	Apr 2	no data
2020	Apr 15	Nov 2	Apr 15	Nov 2
2019	Apr 15	Nov 1	Mar 27	Nov 1
2018	Apr 20	Oct 22	Apr 8	Nov 11
2017	Mar 19	Oct 30	Mar 17	Nov 20
2016	Mar 26	Nov 10	Feb 27	Nov 13
2015	Apr 5	no data	Mar 29	no data
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Apr 17	Nov 2
2013	Apr 25	Oct 25	Mar 28	Oct 25
2012	Apr 23	Oct 31	Apr 23	Oct 31
2011	Mar 25	Oct 21	Feb 13	Nov 11
2010	Mar 29	Oct 29	Mar 7	Oct 31
2009	no data	Oct 18	no data	Nov 27
2008	Apr 29	Oct 28	Apr 16	Oct 29
2007	Apr 16	Nov 2	Apr 10	Nov 7
2006	Apr 10	Oct 13	Mar 27	Oct 24
2005	Apr 25	Oct 24	Mar 18	Oct 29
2004	Apr 16	Nov 26	Mar 22	Dec 2
2003	Apr 12	Oct 3	Apr 12	Nov 14
2002	Apr 6	Nov 2	Mar 23	Nov 13
2001	Apr 19	Oct 17	Apr 19	Oct 28
2000	Apr 22	Oct 9	Apr 9	Oct 9
1999	Mar 28	Oct 21	Mar 27	Oct 24
1998	no data	Oct 23	no data	Nov 6
1997	no data	Oct 22	no data	Nov 16

"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.