Dickson, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00402489, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 780 ft, 36.075, -87.396. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 10	Oct 23
Earliest	Mar 19 (2010)	Sep 26 (2001)
Latest	May 3 (2005)	Nov 24 (2024)
Trend	0.5 days later per decade	0.6 days later per decade
Years with data	72	72

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.

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 9	Nov 3	Mar 21	Nov 10
2024	Apr 22	Nov 24	Mar 19	Nov 28
2023	Mar 29	Oct 31	Mar 19	Nov 1
2022	Mar 27	Oct 18	Mar 13	Oct 18
2021	Apr 22	Nov 4	Apr 3	Nov 14
2019	Apr 15	Nov 1	Apr 1	Nov 1
2018	Apr 20	Oct 22	Mar 22	Nov 10
2017	Apr 8	Oct 29	Mar 16	Oct 30
2016	Apr 3	Nov 11	Mar 3	Nov 20
2015	Apr 5	Oct 18	Mar 29	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Apr 16	Nov 2
2013	Apr 25	no data	Mar 27	no data
2012	Apr 12	Oct 31	Mar 4	Oct 31
2011	Apr 17	Oct 21	Mar 25	Oct 29
2010	Mar 19	Oct 6	Mar 7	Oct 30
2009	Apr 22	Oct 18	Apr 8	Nov 27
2008	Apr 16	Oct 29	Apr 7	Oct 29
2007	Apr 10	Nov 2	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Apr 10	Oct 13	Mar 27	Oct 13
2005	May 3	Oct 26	Mar 18	Oct 26
2004	Apr 15	Nov 15	Mar 23	Nov 26
2003	Mar 31	Oct 3	Mar 31	Nov 14
2002	Apr 7	Nov 2	Apr 6	Nov 2
2001	Apr 19	Sep 26	Apr 18	Oct 27
2000	Apr 10	Oct 8	Apr 9	Oct 9
1999	Apr 18	Oct 21	Mar 29	Oct 24
1998	Apr 11	Oct 23	Mar 22	Nov 6
1997	Apr 18	Oct 18	Apr 18	Oct 28
1996	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 11	Nov 3
1995	Apr 2	Oct 15	Apr 1	Nov 4
1994	no data	Oct 27	no data	Nov 23
1993	Apr 22	Oct 28	Apr 3	Oct 28
1992	Apr 5	Nov 7	Apr 3	Nov 13
1991	Apr 1	Oct 7	Mar 31	Nov 3
1990	Apr 12	Oct 26	Apr 12	Oct 29
1989	Apr 13	Oct 20	Apr 12	Nov 4
1988	Apr 29	Oct 12	Mar 19	Nov 7
1987	Apr 10	Oct 4	Apr 6	Oct 22
1986	Apr 23	no data	Apr 23	no data
1985	Apr 10	Nov 6	Apr 10	Nov 8
1984	no data	Oct 2	no data	Nov 7
1983	Apr 26	Oct 26	Apr 21	Nov 6
1982	Apr 23	Oct 22	Apr 10	Nov 4
1981	Apr 7	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 24
1980	Apr 16	Oct 6	Apr 5	Oct 30
1979	Mar 26	Oct 14	Mar 26	Nov 4
1978	Apr 22	Oct 8	Mar 28	Nov 9
1977	Apr 6	Oct 12	Mar 7	Oct 17
1976	Apr 13	Oct 18	Mar 17	Oct 28
1975	Apr 6	Nov 14	Mar 31	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Oct 3	Mar 25	Nov 13
1973	Apr 14	Nov 6	Apr 11	Nov 10
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 9	Nov 16
1971	Apr 8	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 7
1970	Apr 7	Oct 17	Mar 27	Nov 16
1969	Mar 31	Oct 18	Mar 31	Oct 24
1968	Mar 25	Oct 5	Mar 25	Oct 26
1967	Mar 22	Oct 11	Mar 19	Nov 5
1966	Apr 10	Nov 2	Apr 6	Nov 2
1965	Mar 27	Oct 25	Mar 21	Oct 25
1964	Apr 30	Oct 10	Apr 9	Nov 20
1963	May 2	Oct 30	Mar 22	Nov 3
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Mar 18	Oct 26
1961	Apr 16	Oct 27	Feb 26	Oct 27
1960	Apr 10	Oct 21	Apr 10	Nov 6
1959	Mar 28	Oct 28	Mar 22	Nov 7
1958	Apr 8	Nov 3	Mar 22	Nov 27
1957	Apr 15	Oct 27	Apr 9	Oct 28
1956	Mar 31	Nov 9	Mar 25	Nov 9
1955	Mar 30	Oct 25	Mar 29	Oct 31
1954	Apr 2	Oct 30	Apr 1	Oct 30
1953	Apr 21	Oct 30	Mar 9	Nov 6
1952	Apr 7	Oct 7	Apr 7	Oct 21
1951	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 2

"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.