Last Frost Day

Frost history / Newcomb, TN

Newcomb, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00406493, 2000 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,014 ft, 36.552, -84.173. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 19Oct 19
EarliestMar 24 (2017)Oct 3 (2003)
LatestMay 23 (2002)Nov 5 (2021)
Trend2.7 days earlier per decade3.2 days later per decade
Years with data2626

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 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 302000201020202000: Apr 282001: Apr 202002: May 232003: Apr 12004: Apr 292005: May 52006: Apr 122007: Apr 142008: May 12009: Apr 132010: Apr 112011: Apr 72012: Apr 152013: Apr 212014: Apr 182015: Apr 252016: Apr 142017: Mar 242018: May 12019: Apr 42020: May 112021: Apr 242022: Apr 112023: Apr 262024: Apr 232025: Apr 14

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020202000: Oct 82001: Oct 82002: Nov 22003: Oct 32004: Oct 172005: Oct 272006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 192009: Oct 182010: Oct 72011: Oct 222012: Nov 32013: Oct 222014: Oct 52015: Oct 182016: Oct 232017: Oct 262018: Oct 222019: Oct 182020: Oct 172021: Nov 52022: Oct 92023: Nov 12024: Oct 172025: Oct 23

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
2025Apr 14Oct 23Apr 11Nov 11
2024Apr 23Oct 17Mar 20Nov 30
2023Apr 26Nov 1Mar 22Nov 1
2022Apr 11Oct 9Apr 11Oct 20
2021Apr 24Nov 5Apr 24Nov 5
2020May 11Oct 17Mar 9Nov 2
2019Apr 4Oct 18Apr 2Nov 2
2018May 1Oct 22Apr 21Nov 11
2017Mar 24Oct 26Mar 17Oct 30
2016Apr 14Oct 23Apr 10Nov 10
2015Apr 25Oct 18Mar 30Nov 14
2014Apr 18Oct 5Apr 18Nov 2
2013Apr 21Oct 22Apr 4Oct 26
2012Apr 15Nov 3Apr 13Nov 5
2011Apr 7Oct 22Mar 13Oct 30
2010Apr 11Oct 7Mar 28Nov 7
2009Apr 13Oct 18Apr 9Nov 7
2008May 1Oct 19Mar 26Oct 29
2007Apr 14Oct 29Apr 11Nov 3
2006Apr 12Oct 13Apr 9Oct 13
2005May 5Oct 27Mar 19Oct 28
2004Apr 29Oct 17Apr 6Nov 15
2003Apr 1Oct 3Apr 1Nov 14
2002May 23Nov 2Apr 8Nov 2
2001Apr 20Oct 8Apr 20Oct 18
2000Apr 28Oct 8Apr 9Oct 8

"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.