Frost history / Fairview Bowie Nat Ctr, TN
Fairview Bowie Nat Ctr, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00402989, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 860 ft, 35.969, -87.136. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 9 | Oct 31 |
| Earliest | Mar 8 (2010) | Oct 13 (2006) |
| Latest | Apr 29 (2008) | Nov 29 (2024) |
| Trend | 1.5 days earlier per decade | 4.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 22 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.
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 10 | Nov 3 | Mar 22 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 6 | Nov 29 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 9 | Oct 18 | Mar 14 | Nov 14 |
| 2021 | Apr 4 | Nov 4 | Apr 2 | Nov 5 |
| 2020 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 | Apr 15 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Apr 20 | Nov 1 | Apr 1 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 20 | Oct 21 | Apr 8 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Mar 19 | Oct 30 | Mar 16 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 | Mar 22 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 19 | Nov 2 | Apr 19 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 5 | Oct 25 | Mar 28 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 24 | Oct 31 | Apr 24 | Nov 24 |
| 2011 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 | Mar 25 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Oct 30 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 30 | Oct 18 | Mar 21 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | Apr 29 | Oct 28 | Apr 15 | Oct 29 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 | Apr 9 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Apr 9 | Oct 13 | Mar 27 | Oct 24 |
| 2005 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 | Mar 18 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | Nov 15 | Mar 23 | Dec 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.