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Big Fk 1 Sse, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00030664, 2006 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,200 ft, 34.462, -93.998. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 22Nov 12
EarliestFeb 24 (2025)Oct 19 (2022)
LatestApr 21 (2021)Dec 8 (2016)
Trend4.0 days earlier per decade2.3 days earlier per decade
Years with data1818

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 23.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202006: Mar 252009: Apr 72010: Mar 222011: Mar 72012: Mar 102013: Mar 282014: Apr 162015: Mar 82016: Mar 222017: Mar 162018: Apr 162019: Apr 22020: Feb 282021: Apr 212022: Mar 132023: Mar 202024: Mar 262025: Feb 24

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26201020202008: Oct 282009: Dec 12010: Nov 262011: Nov 172012: Oct 272013: Nov 132014: Nov 12015: Nov 222016: Dec 82017: Oct 282018: Nov 102019: Oct 312020: Nov 302021: Nov 192022: Oct 192023: Oct 312024: Nov 292025: Nov 10

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
2025Feb 24Nov 10Feb 23Nov 10
2024Mar 26Nov 29Feb 19Dec 3
2023Mar 20Oct 31Mar 20Nov 1
2022Mar 13Oct 19Mar 13Nov 13
2021Apr 21Nov 19Feb 21Dec 20
2020Feb 28Nov 30Feb 28Nov 30
2019Apr 2Oct 31Mar 7Nov 8
2018Apr 16Nov 10Apr 8Nov 10
2017Mar 16Oct 28Mar 15Dec 8
2016Mar 22Dec 8Feb 26Dec 8
2015Mar 8Nov 22Mar 7Nov 22
2014Apr 16Nov 1Mar 6Nov 12
2013Mar 28Nov 13Mar 27Nov 13
2012Mar 10Oct 27Feb 14Nov 24
2011Mar 7Nov 17Mar 7Dec 6
2010Mar 22Nov 26Mar 3Nov 26
2009Apr 7Dec 1Mar 4Dec 4
2008no dataOct 28no dataNov 21
2006Mar 25no dataFeb 28no data

"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.