Last Frost Day

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 frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 21Oct 19
EarliestApr 4 (2019)Oct 5 (2014)
LatestMay 13 (2013)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend3.9 days earlier per decade0.6 days later per decade
Years with data1719

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202004: May 42005: May 42006: Apr 102007: Apr 172008: Apr 302009: Apr 222010: Apr 112011: May 52012: Apr 132013: May 132014: Apr 172017: Apr 82018: Apr 212019: Apr 42020: May 102021: Apr 232022: Apr 15

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202004: Oct 172005: Oct 262006: Oct 132007: Oct 302008: Oct 192009: Oct 182010: Oct 292011: Oct 222012: Oct 92013: Oct 202014: Oct 52015: Oct 172016: Nov 102018: Oct 212019: Oct 132020: Oct 172021: Nov 32024: Oct 152025: Oct 24

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
2025no dataOct 24no dataNov 10
2024no dataOct 15no dataNov 28
2022Apr 15no dataApr 10no data
2021Apr 23Nov 3Apr 22Nov 4
2020May 10Oct 17May 9Nov 2
2019Apr 4Oct 13Apr 2Nov 2
2018Apr 21Oct 21Apr 21Nov 10
2017Apr 8no dataMar 19no data
2016no dataNov 10no dataNov 13
2015no dataOct 17no dataNov 14
2014Apr 17Oct 5Apr 17Nov 2
2013May 13Oct 20Apr 3Oct 25
2012Apr 13Oct 9Apr 13Nov 1
2011May 5Oct 22Apr 6Oct 30
2010Apr 11Oct 29Mar 27Oct 30
2009Apr 22Oct 18Apr 9Oct 19
2008Apr 30Oct 19Apr 15Oct 29
2007Apr 17Oct 30Apr 13Nov 3
2006Apr 10Oct 13Mar 27Oct 13
2005May 4Oct 26May 3Oct 27
2004May 4Oct 17Apr 6Nov 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.