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An appropriate heat conduction model is indispensable for experimental data analysis in nanothermometry in order to extract parameters of interests and to achieve a fundamental understanding of phonon-mediated heat transfer in nanostructures and across interfaces. Recently, nanoscale periodic metallic gratings are used as a group of distributed heaters as well as transducers in nanothermometry. However, in this technique, there are coupled hotspot-size-dependent effective thermal conductivity (ETC) and hotspot-size-dependent thermal interface resistivity, which posts a challenge for experimental data analysis using Fourier’s law that fails to extract both ETC and thermal interface resistivity simultaneously. To overcome this challenge, a novel two-parameter nondiffusive heat conduction (TPHC) model, which has been successfully applied to data analysis in different types of pump-probe experiments, is applied to analyze laser-induced nondiffusive heat transfer in nanoscale metallic grating experiments. Since the hotspot-size-dependent ETC is automatically captured by the TPHC model, the hotspot-size-dependent interface resistivity becomes the only parameter to be determined from experiments through data fitting. Thus, the hotspot-size-dependent thermal interface resistivity can be determined from experiments without the impact from the hotspot-size-dependent ETC. Currently, there is a lack of a criterion to predict when Fourier’s law breaks down in nanoscale heat transfer. To fill this gap, a criterion based the TPHC model is identified to predict the valid range of Fourier’s law, which is validated in both theoretical analyses and nanoscale metallic grating experiments.