Gainesboro, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00403370, 1997 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 487 ft, 36.366, -85.655. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 17	Oct 23
Earliest	Mar 31 (2003)	Oct 6 (2010)
Latest	Apr 24 (2005)	Nov 9 (2003)
Trend	3.0 days later per decade	3.3 days earlier per decade
Years with data	13	14

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 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
2011	Apr 17	Oct 22	Feb 26	Nov 11
2010	Apr 18	Oct 6	Mar 7	Nov 6
2009	Apr 12	no data	Apr 8	no data
2008	Apr 17	Oct 26	Apr 17	Oct 29
2007	Apr 17	Oct 29	Apr 14	Nov 2
2006	Apr 10	Oct 12	Apr 10	Oct 12
2005	Apr 24	Oct 23	Mar 17	Oct 23
2004	no data	Oct 16	no data	Nov 25
2003	Mar 31	Nov 9	Mar 31	Nov 13
2002	Apr 8	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 20	Oct 17	Apr 19	Oct 28
2000	Apr 11	Oct 8	Apr 10	Oct 8
1999	Apr 18	Oct 24	Mar 30	Oct 24
1998	Apr 12	Oct 25	Mar 16	Nov 7
1997	no data	Oct 23	no data	Oct 23

"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.