Cookeville, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00402009, 1956 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,090 ft, 36.108, -85.503. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 15	Oct 23
Earliest	Mar 20 (2017)	Oct 2 (1984)
Latest	May 10 (2020)	Nov 20 (2016)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	0.7 days later per decade
Years with data	69	68

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 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.

Chart

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 10	Nov 10	Mar 22	Nov 10
2024	Apr 7	Oct 16	Mar 12	Nov 30
2023	Apr 24	Nov 1	Mar 22	Nov 1
2022	Apr 19	Oct 9	Apr 10	Oct 20
2021	Apr 23	Nov 5	Apr 22	Nov 13
2020	May 10	Nov 2	Apr 15	Nov 2
2019	Apr 4	Nov 3	Mar 21	Nov 3
2018	Apr 21	Oct 22	Apr 17	Nov 11
2017	Mar 20	Oct 30	Mar 17	Oct 30
2016	Apr 10	Nov 20	Mar 7	Dec 10
2015	Apr 6	Oct 18	Apr 6	Oct 19
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Apr 17	Nov 2
2013	Apr 21	Oct 20	Mar 29	Oct 25
2012	Apr 13	Oct 31	Mar 7	Nov 1
2011	Apr 7	Oct 22	Feb 26	Nov 11
2010	Mar 31	Oct 6	Mar 27	Nov 6
2009	Apr 9	Oct 18	Apr 8	Nov 27
2008	Apr 17	Oct 26	Mar 26	Oct 29
2007	Apr 17	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 7
2005	Apr 26	no data	Mar 19	no data
2004	Apr 15	Nov 6	Apr 5	Nov 26
2003	Apr 1	Oct 4	Apr 1	Nov 14
2002	Apr 8	Nov 2	Apr 7	Nov 2
2001	Apr 20	Oct 17	Apr 18	Oct 28
2000	Apr 10	Oct 8	Apr 10	Oct 8
1999	Mar 30	Oct 24	Mar 28	Oct 24
1998	Apr 12	Oct 23	Mar 15	Nov 6
1997	Apr 19	Oct 23	Apr 14	Oct 23
1996	Apr 24	Oct 19	Apr 11	Nov 3
1995	Apr 17	Oct 25	Apr 2	Nov 4
1994	Apr 9	Oct 26	Apr 9	Nov 23
1993	Apr 23	Oct 23	Apr 23	Oct 28
1992	Apr 29	Oct 19	Apr 5	Nov 8
1991	Apr 1	Oct 7	Mar 31	Nov 3
1990	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 9	Oct 29
1989	Apr 14	Nov 1	Apr 14	Nov 4
1988	Apr 29	Oct 8	Mar 19	Oct 13
1987	Apr 11	Oct 4	Apr 4	Oct 21
1986	Apr 24	Nov 13	Apr 23	Nov 13
1985	Apr 11	Nov 8	Apr 10	Nov 8
1984	Apr 7	Oct 2	Mar 31	Nov 13
1983	Apr 21	Nov 5	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	Apr 24	Oct 23	Apr 11	Oct 26
1981	Mar 26	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 24
1980	Apr 17	Oct 6	Mar 22	Oct 31
1979	Apr 7	Oct 14	Mar 26	Nov 4
1978	Apr 22	Oct 8	Mar 19	Dec 1
1977	Mar 24	Oct 12	Mar 24	Nov 11
1976	May 9	Oct 18	Mar 18	Oct 28
1975	Apr 16	Nov 14	Apr 6	Nov 14
1974	Apr 11	Oct 3	Mar 25	Oct 21
1973	Apr 14	Nov 6	Apr 11	Nov 6
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 2	Oct 20
1971	May 4	Nov 4	Apr 25	Nov 7
1970	Apr 7	Oct 17	Apr 3	Nov 17
1969	Apr 1	Oct 18	Apr 1	Oct 24
1968	Mar 26	Oct 26	Mar 25	Oct 26
1967	Apr 28	Oct 11	Mar 22	Nov 5
1966	May 10	Oct 21	Apr 10	Nov 3
1965	Mar 28	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 7	Apr 1	Oct 20
1963	May 2	Oct 30	Mar 23	Oct 30
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 24
1961	Apr 29	Oct 27	Apr 4	Oct 27
1960	Apr 11	Oct 21	Apr 11	Nov 5
1959	Apr 15	Oct 28	Mar 23	Nov 7
1958	Apr 12	Oct 29	Apr 8	Nov 7
1957	Apr 15	Oct 20	Apr 15	Oct 27
1956	Apr 21	Nov 9	Apr 19	Nov 9

"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.