Last Frost Day

Frost history / Henderson 4 W, TN

Henderson 4 W, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00404033, 2003 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 460 ft, 35.444, -88.724. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 28
EarliestMar 26 (2011)Oct 13 (2006)
LatestApr 26 (2013)Nov 25 (2004)
Trend4.1 days earlier per decade8.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data1314

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1520102004: Apr 152005: Apr 242007: Apr 102009: Apr 92010: Mar 312011: Mar 262012: Apr 132013: Apr 262014: Apr 172015: Apr 52016: Mar 262017: Apr 92018: Apr 18

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 1120102003: Nov 142004: Nov 252006: Oct 132008: Oct 282009: Oct 182010: Oct 292011: Oct 212012: Nov 12013: Oct 252014: Nov 12015: Oct 182016: Nov 102017: Oct 282018: Oct 22

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2018Apr 18Oct 22Apr 8Nov 10
2017Apr 9Oct 28Mar 17Nov 11
2016Mar 26Nov 10Mar 22Nov 20
2015Apr 5Oct 18Mar 30Nov 14
2014Apr 17Nov 1Apr 17Nov 2
2013Apr 26Oct 25Mar 28Oct 26
2012Apr 13Nov 1Feb 27Nov 1
2011Mar 26Oct 21Mar 26Oct 22
2010Mar 31Oct 29Mar 7Oct 30
2009Apr 9Oct 18Mar 5Nov 27
2008no dataOct 28no dataOct 29
2007Apr 10no dataApr 7no data
2006no dataOct 13no dataOct 13
2005Apr 24no dataMar 18no data
2004Apr 15Nov 25Apr 5Dec 2
2003no dataNov 14no dataNov 14

"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.