Last Frost Day

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 frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 14Nov 11
EarliestFeb 6 (2014)Oct 28 (2020)
LatestApr 10 (2011)Dec 11 (2021)
Trend14.8 days later per decade7.6 days later per decade
Years with data1517

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)

Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15201020202010: Feb 242011: Apr 102012: Mar 202013: Mar 92014: Feb 62015: Mar 52016: Feb 72018: Mar 12019: Mar 142020: Mar 282021: Mar 172022: Mar 122023: Apr 52024: Apr 72025: Mar 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26201020202009: Oct 292010: Nov 102011: Nov 82012: Nov 112013: Nov 242014: Nov 172015: Nov 112016: Nov 282017: Dec 82018: Nov 122019: Oct 312020: Oct 282021: Dec 112022: Nov 42023: Nov 262024: Nov 72025: Dec 4

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
2025Mar 20Dec 4Jan 31none
2024Apr 7Nov 7Feb 12Nov 8
2023Apr 5Nov 26Apr 5Dec 26
2022Mar 12Nov 4Mar 8Dec 14
2021Mar 17Dec 11Mar 17Dec 16
2020Mar 28Oct 28Feb 13Dec 4
2019Mar 14Oct 31Mar 14Oct 31
2018Mar 1Nov 12Mar 1Dec 3
2017no dataDec 8no dataDec 22
2016Feb 7Nov 28Feb 6Nov 30
2015Mar 5Nov 11Jan 4Nov 28
2014Feb 6Nov 17Feb 6Nov 17
2013Mar 9Nov 24Feb 27Dec 6
2012Mar 20Nov 11Mar 3Nov 11
2011Apr 10Nov 8Feb 28Dec 5
2010Feb 24Nov 10Jan 25Nov 23
2009no dataOct 29no dataDec 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.