Frost history / Ashdown 4 Sse, AR
Ashdown 4 Sse, AR: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00030286, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 320 ft, 33.619, -94.099. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 21 | Nov 6 |
| Earliest | Feb 24 (2021) | Oct 9 (2023) |
| Latest | Apr 17 (1951) | Nov 30 (2024) |
| Trend | 2.5 days earlier per decade | 1.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.
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 18 | Nov 10 | Mar 18 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Mar 20 | Nov 30 | Mar 19 | Dec 6 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Oct 9 | Mar 21 | Dec 28 |
| 2022 | Mar 14 | no data | Mar 13 | no data |
| 2021 | Feb 24 | Nov 3 | Feb 22 | Nov 26 |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Nov 30 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 7 | Oct 31 | Mar 7 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 | Apr 9 | Nov 15 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 | Mar 5 | Nov 23 |
| 2016 | Mar 22 | Nov 22 | Feb 27 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 8 | Nov 22 | Mar 8 | none |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 12 | Mar 6 | Nov 13 |
| 2013 | Mar 29 | Nov 9 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Feb 26 | Nov 14 | Feb 13 | Dec 11 |
| 2011 | Mar 12 | Nov 18 | Feb 13 | Dec 8 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 | Mar 4 | Dec 1 |
| 1963 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 1962 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 | Apr 2 | Dec 6 |
| 1961 | Apr 16 | Nov 7 | Feb 11 | Nov 9 |
| 1960 | Mar 21 | Nov 6 | Mar 18 | Nov 10 |
| 1959 | Apr 14 | Nov 6 | Feb 21 | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | Mar 20 | Nov 7 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 |
| 1957 | Mar 27 | Oct 26 | Mar 8 | Oct 27 |
| 1956 | Mar 20 | Oct 27 | Mar 20 | Nov 9 |
| 1955 | Mar 29 | Oct 25 | Mar 29 | Nov 3 |
| 1954 | Apr 2 | Oct 30 | Mar 16 | Nov 5 |
| 1953 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 1951 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 |
"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.