Last Frost Day

Frost history / Lobelville, TN

Lobelville, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00405358, 1997 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 445 ft, 35.752, -87.796. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 12Oct 24
EarliestMar 31 (2010)Oct 13 (2006)
LatestApr 26 (2013)Nov 15 (2004)
Trend2.3 days earlier per decade2.7 days later per decade
Years with data1210

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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 15200020101999: Apr 192000: Apr 102004: Apr 142005: Apr 252006: Apr 102009: Apr 92010: Mar 312011: Apr 72012: Apr 132013: Apr 262014: Apr 172015: Apr 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26200020101997: Oct 191999: Oct 242004: Nov 152005: Oct 242006: Oct 132008: Oct 292009: Oct 192010: Oct 302011: Oct 222014: Nov 1

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
2015Apr 6no dataMar 30no data
2014Apr 17Nov 1Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 26no dataMar 28no data
2012Apr 13no dataMar 4no data
2011Apr 7Oct 22Mar 26Oct 29
2010Mar 31Oct 30Mar 9Oct 30
2009Apr 9Oct 19Mar 23Nov 27
2008no dataOct 29no dataOct 29
2006Apr 10Oct 13Mar 27Oct 25
2005Apr 25Oct 24Mar 18Oct 29
2004Apr 14Nov 15Mar 23Dec 2
2000Apr 10no dataApr 9no data
1999Apr 19Oct 24Mar 28Oct 24
1997no dataOct 19no dataOct 28

"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.