Frost history / Tellico Plains, TN
Tellico Plains, TN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00408886, 2000 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 910 ft, 35.370, -84.300. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 10 | Oct 23 |
| Earliest | Mar 1 (2015) | Oct 6 (2001) |
| Latest | Apr 29 (2018) | Nov 13 (2016) |
| Trend | 1.5 days earlier per decade | 1.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 16 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 17 |
| 2022 | Apr 11 | Oct 17 | Apr 10 | Oct 19 |
| 2021 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 2020 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Oct 17 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | Apr 29 | Oct 21 | Apr 16 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Apr 8 | Oct 29 | Mar 16 | Oct 29 |
| 2016 | Apr 9 | Nov 13 | Feb 24 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Mar 1 | Oct 17 | Feb 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2014 | Apr 23 | Oct 22 | Mar 26 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 19 | Oct 23 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 |
| 2005 | Apr 25 | no data | Mar 14 | no data |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | Nov 5 | Mar 23 | Nov 25 |
| 2003 | Mar 30 | Oct 27 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | Nov 1 | Apr 6 | Nov 17 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 6 | Mar 28 | Oct 17 |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Oct 7 | Apr 8 | Oct 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.