Last Frost Day

Frost history / Aguila, AZ

Aguila, AZ: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00020060, 1951 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,165 ft, 33.943, -113.188. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 29Nov 17
EarliestJan 22 (1992)Oct 22 (1953)
LatestMay 8 (1965)Dec 18 (1977)
Trend2.9 days earlier per decade0.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data3940

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 27.

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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 151960197019801990200020101951: Mar 191952: Mar 171953: Apr 101954: Mar 261955: Apr 61956: Apr 151957: Mar 251959: Mar 71961: Feb 251962: Mar 171963: Apr 181964: Apr 251965: May 81968: Apr 191969: Mar 211975: May 61976: Mar 151977: Apr 31978: Mar 131979: Apr 111980: Apr 31981: Feb 71982: Apr 81983: Apr 141985: Mar 301986: Feb 211989: Mar 51990: Mar 141991: Apr 131992: Jan 221993: Feb 221995: Mar 291996: Apr 131999: Apr 102000: Feb 272011: Apr 282013: Feb 282014: Apr 242015: Jan 23

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 261960197019801990200020101951: Nov 251953: Oct 221954: Dec 111955: Nov 151956: Oct 301957: Nov 71959: Nov 271961: Oct 301962: Dec 141963: Dec 71964: Nov 151967: Nov 301968: Nov 171969: Nov 211974: Nov 251975: Oct 251976: Nov 281977: Dec 181978: Nov 171980: Nov 171981: Nov 201982: Nov 31983: Nov 211984: Nov 91985: Nov 131987: Nov 271988: Nov 161989: Nov 301990: Nov 261991: Oct 291992: Nov 121993: Nov 251994: Nov 121995: Oct 251996: Oct 221998: Nov 101999: Nov 232013: Nov 122014: Nov 252015: Nov 26

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2015Jan 23Nov 26Jan 4Nov 27
2014Apr 24Nov 25Feb 4Dec 25
2013Feb 28Nov 12Feb 28Nov 13
2011Apr 28no dataFeb 15no data
2000Feb 27no dataJan 9no data
1999Apr 10Nov 23Feb 12Nov 23
1998no dataNov 10no dataDec 8
1996Apr 13Oct 22Mar 25Dec 1
1995Mar 29Oct 25Jan 27Dec 16
1994no dataNov 12no dataNov 14
1993Feb 22Nov 25Jan 4Nov 27
1992Jan 22Nov 12Jan 18Nov 12
1991Apr 13Oct 29Jan 31Dec 2
1990Mar 14Nov 26Mar 13Nov 26
1989Mar 5Nov 30Feb 14Dec 1
1988no dataNov 16no dataNov 21
1987no dataNov 27no dataDec 14
1986Feb 21no dataFeb 12no data
1985Mar 30Nov 13Mar 30Nov 20
1984no dataNov 9no dataNov 27
1983Apr 14Nov 21Apr 5Nov 21
1982Apr 8Nov 3Feb 3Dec 27
1981Feb 7Nov 20Feb 6Nov 26
1980Apr 3Nov 17Feb 11Nov 17
1979Apr 11no dataFeb 24no data
1978Mar 13Nov 17noneDec 6
1977Apr 3Dec 18Mar 15none
1976Mar 15Nov 28Jan 13Nov 29
1975May 6Oct 25Apr 2Nov 20
1974no dataNov 25no dataNov 30
1969Mar 21Nov 21Mar 19Dec 11
1968Apr 19Nov 17Jan 20Nov 30
1967no dataNov 30no dataDec 13
1965May 8no dataMar 6no data
1964Apr 25Nov 15Mar 9Nov 15
1963Apr 18Dec 7Mar 16Dec 11
1962Mar 17Dec 14Mar 15Dec 25
1961Feb 25Oct 30Feb 24Nov 18
1959Mar 7Nov 27Feb 5Nov 27
1957Mar 25Nov 7Feb 1Nov 21
1956Apr 15Oct 30Mar 16Nov 2
1955Apr 6Nov 15Apr 4Nov 16
1954Mar 26Dec 11Mar 14Dec 22
1953Apr 10Oct 22Feb 23Oct 24
1952Mar 17no dataMar 3no data
1951Mar 19Nov 25Mar 4Dec 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.