Frost history / Lookout Mtn-Point Park, TN
Lookout Mtn-Point Park, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00405431, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,110 ft, 35.010, -85.344. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 28 | Nov 2 |
| Earliest | Mar 5 (2012) | Oct 9 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 19 (2001) | Nov 29 (2024) |
| Trend | 6.0 days earlier per decade | 3.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 20 | 21 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 23.
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 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2024 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 1 | Mar 21 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Mar 14 | Oct 18 | Mar 14 | Nov 13 |
| 2021 | Apr 3 | Nov 14 | Apr 3 | Nov 23 |
| 2020 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 17 | Oct 21 | Apr 8 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Oct 29 | Mar 17 | Dec 8 |
| 2016 | Mar 21 | Nov 20 | Mar 2 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Nov 22 | Mar 30 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 29 | no data |
| 2012 | Mar 5 | Nov 13 | Feb 20 | Nov 24 |
| 2011 | Mar 12 | Nov 11 | Feb 13 | Dec 8 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Dec 6 |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | no data | Mar 10 | no data |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2000 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 1999 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 | Mar 13 | Nov 30 |
| 1998 | Mar 23 | Nov 6 | Mar 22 | Dec 22 |
| 1997 | Apr 19 | Oct 28 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 | Mar 23 | Nov 3 |
"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.