Frost history / Fall Creek Falls Sp, TN
Fall Creek Falls Sp, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00403040, 2000 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,790 ft, 35.639, -85.359. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 24 | Oct 17 |
| Earliest | Mar 30 (2015) | Sep 26 (2001) |
| Latest | May 24 (2002) | Nov 9 (2003) |
| Trend | 3.3 days earlier per decade | 1.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Apr 22 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 17 | Mar 8 | Nov 2 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | no data | Mar 30 | no data |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Oct 5 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | May 13 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 2010 | Apr 11 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | Apr 30 | Oct 19 | Apr 16 | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | Apr 13 | Oct 29 | Apr 10 | Nov 3 |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Oct 13 | Mar 27 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 5 | Oct 23 | Apr 26 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | May 4 | Nov 6 | Apr 28 | Nov 15 |
| 2003 | Apr 12 | Nov 9 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | May 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 8 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 27 | Sep 26 | Apr 19 | Oct 18 |
| 2000 | Apr 28 | Oct 8 | Apr 9 | Oct 10 |
"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.