Frost history / Cheatham L&D, TN
Cheatham L&D, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00401663, 1971 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 392 ft, 36.321, -87.222. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 10 | Oct 22 |
| Earliest | Mar 14 (2011) | Oct 3 (1974) |
| Latest | May 12 (1989) | Nov 27 (2009) |
| Trend | 4.0 days earlier per decade | 3.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 38 | 41 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 29 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.
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 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 2021 | Apr 5 | Nov 4 | Apr 4 | Nov 19 |
| 2020 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2017 | Mar 20 | Oct 31 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2013 | Apr 4 | Oct 25 | Mar 27 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 13 | Oct 31 | Mar 5 | Nov 1 |
| 2011 | Mar 14 | Oct 13 | Mar 14 | Nov 16 |
| 2010 | Mar 27 | Oct 30 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 22 | Nov 27 | Mar 5 | Nov 28 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 2007 | Apr 12 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 2006 | Apr 9 | Oct 13 | Mar 28 | Nov 2 |
| 2005 | Mar 22 | Oct 27 | Mar 16 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Apr 15 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | Nov 2 | Mar 23 | Nov 23 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 17 | Apr 19 | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 13 | no data |
| 1997 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Oct 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 28 | Oct 11 | Apr 11 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | Apr 6 | Oct 13 | Apr 2 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | Apr 9 | Oct 26 | Apr 9 | Nov 23 |
| 1993 | Apr 23 | Oct 22 | Apr 23 | Oct 28 |
| 1992 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 | Apr 5 | Oct 19 |
| 1991 | Apr 2 | Oct 7 | Mar 31 | Nov 3 |
| 1990 | Apr 19 | Oct 20 | Apr 13 | Oct 27 |
| 1989 | May 12 | Oct 19 | Apr 14 | Nov 3 |
| 1988 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 22 |
| 1986 | Apr 24 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 1983 | Apr 21 | Nov 5 | Apr 21 | Nov 5 |
| 1982 | Apr 10 | Oct 22 | Apr 10 | Nov 5 |
| 1981 | Mar 25 | Oct 24 | Mar 25 | Oct 24 |
| 1980 | Apr 17 | Oct 6 | Mar 22 | Oct 30 |
| 1979 | Mar 26 | Oct 14 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 |
| 1978 | Apr 22 | Oct 16 | Mar 18 | Dec 1 |
| 1977 | Mar 25 | Oct 14 | Mar 25 | Nov 12 |
| 1976 | May 4 | Oct 18 | Mar 17 | Oct 18 |
| 1975 | Apr 14 | Oct 31 | Apr 5 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Apr 10 | Oct 3 | Mar 24 | Oct 21 |
| 1973 | Apr 15 | Nov 6 | Apr 12 | Nov 6 |
| 1972 | Apr 27 | Oct 20 | Apr 9 | Nov 16 |
| 1971 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 7 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.