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Samburg Wildlife Refuge, TN Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month

Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate

30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Samburg Wildlife Refuge's primary NOAA station, SAMBURG WR.

The climate verdict for Samburg Wildlife Refuge

Water is the standout signal in Samburg Wildlife Refuge, Tennessee: 53.2 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 58°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.

58°F
annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
68/100
comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
53.2"
precipitation, annual total
212 days
frost-free days per growing season

Samburg Wildlife Refuge: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.

Normals record plate

Sheet USC00408065 · Samburg Wildlife Refuge, TN 58°F mean · 53.2" precip

TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Williamson, WV ( -0.1 °F mean)

Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.

Mean-temperature neighbourhood

Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every TN station list.

Climate Living Index · Samburg Wildlife Refuge

Samburg Wildlife Refuge: 67/100 · grade C

Samburg Wildlife Refuge publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.

C
67/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Samburg Wildlife Refuge, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.

Samburg Wildlife Refuge Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Normal heat + freeze calendar 77 calendar days 83/100 · B
Frost-free season 212 days/year 73/100 · B
Annual temperature balance 57.8°F · 9.7° from 67.5°F 69/100 · C
Precipitation balance 53.2 in · 18.2 from 35 in 35/100 · F

Samburg Wildlife Refuge · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.

Samburg Wildlife Refuge is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa

Coldest-month mean 35.2°F and warmest-month mean 77.6°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, hot summer climates (Cfa). Class Cfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, hot summer.

Köppen code
Cfa
Group
Temperate
Warmest month
77.6°F
Coldest month
35.2°F

Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.

National standing · heating-led station

Where Samburg Wildlife Refuge sits across the climate record

Three NOAA fields for Samburg Wildlife Refuge's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.

Annual temperature
69th percentile warmth
Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
Annual precipitation
Top 13% wettest
Samburg Wildlife Refuge's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
Seasonal temperature swing
46th percentile swing
Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.

How Samburg Wildlife Refuge compares across U.S. station-mapped locations

Samburg Wildlife Refuge's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations

PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals

68 Top 44% score exceeds 56% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores

0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry. 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry. 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry. 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry. 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry. 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry. 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). This entry sits in this band. 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry. 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry. 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry. This location 0 100 every station-mapped location, bucketed by value
  1. 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
  2. 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
  3. 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
  4. 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
  5. 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
  6. 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
  7. 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). This entry sits in this band.
  8. 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
  9. 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
  10. 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.

Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more station-mapped locations. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 44°F (7°C) 27°F (-3°C) 35°F (2°C)
February 49°F (9°C) 30°F (-1°C) 39°F (4°C)
March 59°F (15°C) 38°F (4°C) 49°F (9°C)
April 69°F (21°C) 47°F (8°C) 58°F (15°C)
May 77°F (25°C) 57°F (14°C) 67°F (19°C)
June 85°F (29°C) 65°F (19°C) 75°F (24°C)
July 87°F (31°C) 68°F (20°C) 78°F (25°C)
August 87°F (30°C) 66°F (19°C) 76°F (25°C)
September 81°F (27°C) 59°F (15°C) 70°F (21°C)
October 71°F (22°C) 47°F (8°C) 59°F (15°C)
November 59°F (15°C) 38°F (3°C) 48°F (9°C)
December 48°F (9°C) 30°F (-1°C) 39°F (4°C)

The year, day by day

Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around July 2, short of 90°F on every date, while 77 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 26°F near January 18.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Samburg Wildlife Refuge, January through December Peaks 87°F around July 2. Bottoms 26°F around January 18. 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 freezing JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, SAMBURG WR.

The freezing stretch

The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 22, then returns to freezing around December 8, covering 77 dates in all.

Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.

The widest day

October 14 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.

Look up any date

Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Samburg Wildlife Refuge.

Where Samburg Wildlife Refuge Stands Nationally

The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 53 inches.

Samburg Wildlife Refuge earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.

Monthly Precipitation

Average monthly rainfall

January 4.5"
February 4.2"
March 5.0"
April 5.3"
May 5.7"
June 4.2"
July 3.9"
August 3.3"
September 3.9"
October 3.9"
November 4.3"
December 5.1"

Samburg Wildlife Refuge spreads its precipitation across the year

Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 21% of the annual total and December through February 26%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Samburg Wildlife Refuge has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 42.4°F seasonal spread.

The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 5.7" and August 3.3". The three wettest months together take 30% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.

Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.

Frost Dates & Growing Season

First Fall Freeze

November 1

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

April 3

50% probability date

Growing Season

212 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

4,021

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

1,423

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

July

Coldest Month

January

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside TN closest to Samburg Wildlife Refuge on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.

Closest by average temperature

Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (58°F here).

Closest by annual precipitation

Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (53.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.

Tennessee climate overview →

Data-derived climate profile

How Samburg Wildlife Refuge's climate pattern fits together

heating led · wet · mid swing

Samburg Wildlife Refuge's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,021 annual heating degree days against 1,423 for cooling. Its 42.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.

Samburg Wildlife Refuge's frost-free season lasts about 212 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.

July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Samburg Wildlife Refuge's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 42.4°F. The annual average is 58°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.

Alongside its heating load, Samburg Wildlife Refuge carries 53.2 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.

These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Samburg Wildlife Refuge's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Samburg Wildlife Refuge, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.

Questions about Samburg Wildlife Refuge's climate

How much rain does Samburg Wildlife Refuge get?
Samburg Wildlife Refuge receives 53.2 inches of precipitation. Based on NOAA 30-year climate normals (1991-2020).
How many days above 90°F does Samburg Wildlife Refuge get?
Samburg Wildlife Refuge averages about 39 days a year at or above 90°F, concentrated in July and the months either side of it. That is a count of days reaching the threshold, not a measure of how far above it they go.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Samburg Wildlife Refuge?
Samburg Wildlife Refuge has 4,021 heating degree days and 1,423 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. Degree-day definitions: reading weather data.

Data Sources

Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Samburg Wildlife Refuge's primary station: SAMBURG WR (USC00408065). For informational purposes only.

Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Samburg Wildlife Refuge; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainClimate

On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Samburg Wildlife Refuge comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.