Frost history / Globe #3, AZ
Globe #3, AZ: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00023501, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,660 ft, 33.395, -110.793. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 14 | Nov 11 |
| Earliest | Feb 6 (2014) | Oct 28 (2020) |
| Latest | Apr 10 (2011) | Dec 11 (2021) |
| Trend | 14.8 days later per decade | 7.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Dec 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 20 | Dec 4 | Jan 31 | none |
| 2024 | Apr 7 | Nov 7 | Feb 12 | Nov 8 |
| 2023 | Apr 5 | Nov 26 | Apr 5 | Dec 26 |
| 2022 | Mar 12 | Nov 4 | Mar 8 | Dec 14 |
| 2021 | Mar 17 | Dec 11 | Mar 17 | Dec 16 |
| 2020 | Mar 28 | Oct 28 | Feb 13 | Dec 4 |
| 2019 | Mar 14 | Oct 31 | Mar 14 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Mar 1 | Nov 12 | Mar 1 | Dec 3 |
| 2017 | no data | Dec 8 | no data | Dec 22 |
| 2016 | Feb 7 | Nov 28 | Feb 6 | Nov 30 |
| 2015 | Mar 5 | Nov 11 | Jan 4 | Nov 28 |
| 2014 | Feb 6 | Nov 17 | Feb 6 | Nov 17 |
| 2013 | Mar 9 | Nov 24 | Feb 27 | Dec 6 |
| 2012 | Mar 20 | Nov 11 | Mar 3 | Nov 11 |
| 2011 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 | Feb 28 | Dec 5 |
| 2010 | Feb 24 | Nov 10 | Jan 25 | Nov 23 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Dec 4 |
"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.