Waynesboro, TN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00409502, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 750 ft, 35.304, -87.759. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 17	Oct 18
Earliest	Mar 29 (2023)	Sep 16 (1961)
Latest	May 28 (1961)	Nov 23 (2024)
Trend	2.6 days earlier per decade	3.1 days later per decade
Years with data	68	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 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.

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 9	Nov 3	Mar 22	Nov 10
2024	Apr 22	Nov 23	Mar 20	Nov 30
2023	Mar 29	Oct 31	Mar 20	Oct 31
2022	Apr 19	Oct 18	Apr 16	Oct 19
2021	Apr 22	Oct 27	Apr 3	Oct 27
2020	Apr 16	Nov 2	Apr 16	Nov 2
2019	Apr 2	Nov 1	Mar 28	Nov 1
2018	Apr 21	Oct 21	Apr 9	Nov 10
2017	Apr 8	Oct 30	Mar 17	Nov 11
2016	Apr 4	Nov 10	Mar 22	Nov 20
2015	Apr 5	Oct 18	Mar 31	Nov 14
2014	Apr 17	Nov 1	Apr 17	Nov 2
2013	Apr 26	Oct 20	Mar 31	Oct 25
2012	Apr 13	Oct 29	Apr 13	Oct 31
2011	Apr 18	Oct 21	Mar 12	Oct 29
2010	Apr 10	Oct 4	Mar 8	Oct 30
2009	Apr 9	Oct 18	Apr 9	Nov 26
2008	Apr 17	Oct 28	Apr 16	Oct 28
2007	Apr 17	Nov 3	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	no data	Oct 13	no data	Oct 13
2005	Apr 4	Oct 24	Mar 19	Oct 30
2004	Apr 15	no data	Apr 4	no data
2003	Apr 11	Nov 13	Mar 31	Nov 13
2002	Apr 5	no data	Apr 5	no data
2001	Apr 19	Oct 16	Apr 17	Oct 26
2000	Apr 9	Oct 7	Apr 9	Oct 7
1999	Apr 17	Oct 19	Mar 26	Oct 23
1998	Apr 11	Oct 22	Mar 22	Nov 5
1997	Apr 18	Oct 18	Apr 18	Oct 27
1996	Apr 16	Oct 18	Apr 10	Nov 2
1995	Apr 3	Oct 15	Apr 1	Nov 4
1994	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 5	Nov 23
1993	Apr 23	no data	Apr 22	no data
1992	Apr 30	Oct 19	Apr 30	Nov 7
1991	Apr 10	Oct 7	Apr 1	Oct 7
1990	Apr 13	Oct 19	Apr 12	Oct 26
1989	May 12	Oct 20	Apr 14	Nov 3
1988	Apr 29	Oct 5	Mar 20	Oct 13
1986	May 4	Oct 16	Apr 23	Nov 13
1985	no data	Nov 5	no data	Nov 6
1981	Apr 6	no data	Mar 25	no data
1980	Apr 16	Oct 6	Mar 22	Oct 13
1979	Apr 5	Oct 14	Mar 27	Nov 3
1978	Apr 22	Oct 7	Mar 28	Oct 8
1977	May 11	Oct 4	Apr 6	Oct 12
1976	May 19	Oct 10	May 4	Oct 18
1975	Apr 16	Oct 3	Apr 14	Nov 14
1974	Apr 26	Oct 3	Apr 10	Oct 3
1973	no data	Oct 17	no data	Nov 6
1972	Apr 26	Oct 20	Apr 5	Oct 20
1971	May 5	Nov 4	Apr 11	Nov 4
1970	May 4	Oct 10	Apr 3	Oct 30
1969	Apr 30	Oct 18	Mar 31	Oct 18
1968	May 6	Oct 4	Apr 6	Oct 26
1967	Apr 28	Sep 29	Mar 23	Oct 11
1966	Apr 16	Oct 2	Apr 15	Oct 26
1965	Apr 29	Oct 13	Mar 23	Oct 25
1964	Apr 11	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 7
1963	May 2	Oct 29	Apr 15	Oct 29
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 24
1961	May 28	Sep 16	Apr 18	Oct 15
1960	May 8	Oct 21	May 2	Oct 21
1959	Apr 24	Oct 19	Apr 23	Nov 7
1958	Apr 13	Oct 2	Apr 8	Oct 27
1957	May 6	Oct 12	Apr 15	Oct 20
1956	Apr 21	Oct 8	Apr 21	Nov 9
1955	Apr 9	Oct 9	Mar 31	Oct 25
1954	May 21	Oct 17	Apr 2	Oct 19
1953	Apr 21	Oct 7	Apr 21	Oct 30
1952	Apr 17	Oct 7	Apr 7	Oct 17
1951	Apr 17	Oct 9	Apr 17	Oct 9

"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.