Frost history / Elizabethton, TN
Elizabethton, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00402806, 1983 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,487 ft, 36.354, -82.249. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 16 | Oct 23 |
| Earliest | Mar 27 (2006) | Oct 4 (1987) |
| Latest | May 22 (2002) | Nov 13 (2003) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 0.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 35 | 40 |
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.
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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 | Apr 13 | Oct 23 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 18 | Mar 25 | Nov 24 |
| 2023 | Apr 26 | Nov 1 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 20 | Oct 18 | Apr 11 | Nov 14 |
| 2021 | Apr 25 | Nov 5 | Apr 23 | Nov 7 |
| 2020 | May 12 | Nov 1 | Mar 9 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 4 | Nov 2 | Apr 2 | Nov 3 |
| 2018 | Apr 30 | Oct 22 | Apr 22 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Apr 9 | Oct 27 | Mar 18 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 7 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2014 | Apr 8 | Oct 4 | Apr 8 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 5 | Oct 22 | Apr 3 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 12 | no data | Apr 12 | no data |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 11 | Oct 18 | Mar 3 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Oct 29 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Oct 29 | Apr 9 | Nov 6 |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Oct 12 | Mar 26 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 | Mar 18 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | May 3 | Nov 5 | Mar 22 | Nov 25 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 13 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 |
| 2002 | May 22 | Nov 1 | Apr 4 | Nov 17 |
| 2001 | Apr 18 | Oct 6 | Apr 18 | Oct 27 |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Oct 7 | Mar 17 | Oct 9 |
| 1999 | Apr 13 | Oct 24 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 |
| 1998 | Apr 12 | Oct 22 | Mar 23 | Oct 22 |
| 1997 | May 15 | Oct 22 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 |
| 1996 | Apr 16 | Oct 18 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 |
| 1995 | Apr 24 | Oct 21 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1994 | Apr 8 | Oct 26 | Apr 8 | Oct 26 |
| 1993 | Apr 27 | Oct 22 | Mar 18 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 30 | Oct 19 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 |
| 1991 | Apr 3 | no data | Apr 2 | no data |
| 1990 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1988 | Apr 20 | Oct 6 | Apr 20 | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | Apr 10 | Oct 4 | Apr 5 | Oct 13 |
| 1986 | May 4 | Nov 13 | Apr 24 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 |
| 1984 | no data | Nov 7 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 1983 | Apr 22 | Nov 5 | Apr 21 | Nov 5 |
"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.