Pikeville, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00407184, 1962 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 864 ft, 35.598, -85.194. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 13	Oct 20
Earliest	Mar 17 (1979)	Sep 30 (1967)
Latest	May 18 (1973)	Nov 14 (2003)
Trend	2.7 days earlier per decade	1.9 days later per decade
Years with data	57	61

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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.

Chart

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	Apr 13	Oct 24	Mar 21	Nov 11
2024	Apr 6	Oct 17	Mar 19	Nov 30
2023	Mar 30	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 1
2022	Apr 19	Oct 9	Apr 10	Oct 18
2021	Apr 22	Nov 5	Apr 22	Nov 7
2020	May 10	Nov 2	Mar 8	Nov 3
2019	Apr 3	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 3
2018	Apr 20	Oct 22	Apr 17	Nov 11
2017	Mar 19	Oct 30	Mar 17	Oct 30
2016	Apr 10	Oct 23	Mar 22	Nov 11
2015	Apr 5	Oct 18	Apr 5	Nov 14
2014	Apr 16	Oct 5	Apr 16	Nov 2
2013	Apr 20	Oct 25	Mar 28	Oct 25
2012	Apr 24	Oct 31	Apr 12	Nov 1
2011	Apr 6	Oct 22	Mar 12	Oct 30
2010	Mar 19	Oct 6	Mar 7	Nov 6
2009	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 6
2008	Apr 16	Oct 19	Mar 25	Oct 20
2007	Apr 10	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 5
2006	Apr 10	Oct 13	Mar 27	Oct 13
2005	Apr 25	Oct 26	Mar 18	Oct 27
2004	Apr 6	Nov 6	Mar 23	Nov 15
2003	Apr 1	Nov 14	Mar 31	Nov 14
2002	Apr 7	Nov 2	Mar 28	Nov 18
2001	Mar 28	Oct 17	Mar 28	Oct 28
2000	Apr 10	Oct 8	Apr 9	Oct 10
1999	Apr 19	Oct 21	Mar 28	Oct 24
1998	Apr 12	Oct 23	Mar 15	Nov 6
1997	Apr 18	Oct 23	Apr 18	Oct 23
1996	Apr 24	Oct 19	Apr 11	Oct 20
1995	Apr 5	Oct 21	Mar 12	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 1	Oct 27
1993	Apr 3	Oct 23	Apr 3	Oct 28
1992	Apr 29	Oct 20	Apr 5	Nov 8
1991	Apr 1	Oct 6	Mar 31	Oct 6
1990	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 8	Oct 27
1989	Apr 13	Oct 21	Apr 13	Oct 21
1988	Apr 29	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 13
1987	Apr 10	Oct 4	Apr 4	Oct 8
1986	May 4	Nov 13	Apr 23	Nov 14
1984	Apr 1	Oct 1	Mar 30	Nov 6
1983	Apr 20	Oct 27	Apr 20	Nov 4
1982	no data	Oct 22	no data	Oct 23
1981	Apr 25	no data	Mar 24	no data
1980	no data	Oct 6	no data	Oct 26
1979	Mar 17	no data	Mar 17	no data
1978	no data	Oct 15	no data	Dec 6
1977	no data	Oct 17	no data	Nov 12
1976	May 4	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 22
1975	Apr 21	Oct 31	Apr 13	Oct 31
1974	Apr 25	Oct 3	Mar 22	Oct 3
1973	May 18	Oct 18	Apr 13	Nov 6
1972	Apr 26	Oct 1	Apr 9	Nov 17
1971	no data	Nov 4	no data	Nov 5
1970	Apr 8	Oct 17	Apr 3	Nov 17
1969	May 13	Oct 18	Mar 31	Nov 6
1968	May 6	Oct 5	Mar 25	Oct 26
1967	Apr 28	Sep 30	Mar 22	Oct 28
1966	May 10	Oct 21	Apr 10	Nov 4
1965	Mar 27	Oct 13	Mar 22	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 7	Apr 1	Oct 20
1963	May 2	Oct 18	Mar 23	Oct 30
1962	no data	Oct 24	no data	Oct 24

"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.