Last Frost Day

Frost history / Decatur 7NE, TN

Decatur 7NE, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00402388, 1998 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 750 ft, 35.639, -84.665. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 21
EarliestApr 1 (2003)Oct 5 (2014)
LatestMay 10 (2020)Nov 14 (2003)
Trend1.7 days later per decade1.4 days earlier per decade
Years with data2828

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 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 152000201020201998: Apr 131999: Apr 202000: Apr 112001: Apr 202002: Apr 82003: Apr 12004: May 42005: Apr 282006: Apr 62007: Apr 142008: Apr 302009: Apr 102010: Apr 112011: Apr 72012: Apr 142013: Apr 212014: Apr 182015: Apr 62016: Apr 112017: Apr 92018: Apr 202019: Apr 42020: May 102021: Apr 232022: Apr 192023: Apr 242024: Apr 222025: Apr 13

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201998: Oct 231999: Oct 242000: Oct 82001: Oct 172002: Nov 22003: Nov 142004: Nov 62005: Oct 262006: Oct 132007: Nov 32008: Oct 202009: Oct 192010: Oct 62011: Oct 222012: Nov 12013: Oct 212014: Oct 52015: Oct 192016: Oct 232017: Oct 262018: Oct 212019: Oct 192020: Oct 172021: Nov 52022: Oct 92023: Nov 12024: Oct 172025: Oct 23

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 13Oct 23Apr 9Nov 11
2024Apr 22Oct 17Mar 19Nov 30
2023Apr 24Nov 1Mar 22Nov 1
2022Apr 19Oct 9Apr 10Oct 19
2021Apr 23Nov 5Apr 22Nov 7
2020May 10Oct 17Mar 9Nov 3
2019Apr 4Oct 19Mar 24Nov 3
2018Apr 20Oct 21Apr 17Nov 11
2017Apr 9Oct 26Mar 17Oct 30
2016Apr 11Oct 23Apr 10Nov 11
2015Apr 6Oct 19Apr 6Nov 14
2014Apr 18Oct 5Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 21Oct 21Mar 29Oct 25
2012Apr 14Nov 1Mar 12Nov 1
2011Apr 7Oct 22Apr 7Oct 30
2010Apr 11Oct 6Mar 8Nov 7
2009Apr 10Oct 19Apr 9Oct 19
2008Apr 30Oct 20Apr 17Oct 29
2007Apr 14Nov 3Apr 11Nov 4
2006Apr 6Oct 13Mar 28Oct 15
2005Apr 28Oct 26Mar 18Oct 28
2004May 4Nov 6Mar 24Nov 15
2003Apr 1Nov 14Apr 1Nov 14
2002Apr 8Nov 2Apr 7Nov 2
2001Apr 20Oct 17Apr 20Oct 18
2000Apr 11Oct 8Apr 10Oct 10
1999Apr 20Oct 24Mar 29Oct 24
1998Apr 13Oct 23Apr 12Oct 25

"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.