Frost history / Jamestown, TN
Jamestown, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00404590, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,690 ft, 36.426, -84.942. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 21 | Oct 19 |
| Earliest | Apr 4 (2019) | Oct 5 (2014) |
| Latest | May 13 (2013) | Nov 10 (2016) |
| Trend | 3.9 days earlier per decade | 0.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 17 | 19 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.
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 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 2022 | Apr 15 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 3 | Apr 22 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 17 | May 9 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 4 | Oct 13 | Apr 2 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | Apr 21 | Oct 21 | Apr 21 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Apr 8 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Oct 5 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | May 13 | Oct 20 | Apr 3 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 13 | Oct 9 | Apr 13 | Nov 1 |
| 2011 | May 5 | Oct 22 | Apr 6 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 | Mar 27 | Oct 30 |
| 2009 | Apr 22 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | Apr 30 | Oct 19 | Apr 15 | Oct 29 |
| 2007 | Apr 17 | Oct 30 | Apr 13 | Nov 3 |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Oct 13 | Mar 27 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 26 | May 3 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | May 4 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Nov 15 |
"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.