Last Frost Day

Frost history / Christiana 5W, TN

Christiana 5W, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00401720, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 750 ft, 35.705, -86.487. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 12Oct 30
EarliestMar 19 (2017)Oct 9 (2022)
LatestMay 4 (2005)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend1.0 days later per decade1.3 days earlier per decade
Years with data1819

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202005: May 42006: Apr 112007: Apr 112008: Apr 172009: Apr 92010: Mar 312011: Apr 62012: Apr 132013: Apr 202014: Apr 172015: Apr 62016: Apr 102017: Mar 192018: May 12022: Apr 112023: Apr 252024: Apr 222025: Apr 13

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202004: Nov 62005: Oct 242006: Oct 132007: Nov 32008: Oct 292009: Oct 182010: Oct 302011: Oct 222012: Oct 312013: Oct 252014: Nov 22015: Oct 182016: Nov 102017: Oct 302019: Nov 12021: Nov 42022: Oct 92023: Oct 312024: Oct 16

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 13no dataMar 22no data
2024Apr 22Oct 16Mar 20Nov 30
2023Apr 25Oct 31Mar 22Nov 1
2022Apr 11Oct 9Mar 15Oct 19
2021no dataNov 4no dataNov 13
2019no dataNov 1no dataNov 1
2018May 1no dataApr 17no data
2017Mar 19Oct 30Mar 17Oct 30
2016Apr 10Nov 10Mar 23Nov 20
2015Apr 6Oct 18Apr 5Nov 13
2014Apr 17Nov 2Apr 17Nov 2
2013Apr 20Oct 25Mar 29Oct 25
2012Apr 13Oct 31Apr 12Oct 31
2011Apr 6Oct 22Mar 26Nov 11
2010Mar 31Oct 30Mar 8Oct 30
2009Apr 9Oct 18Apr 9Nov 27
2008Apr 17Oct 29Apr 16Oct 29
2007Apr 11Nov 3Apr 10Nov 7
2006Apr 11Oct 13Mar 29Oct 13
2005May 4Oct 24Mar 19Oct 24
2004no dataNov 6no dataNov 15

"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.