Blytheville, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00030806, 1951 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 252 ft, 35.924, -89.904. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 23	Nov 12
Earliest	Mar 6 (1985)	Oct 20 (1952)
Latest	Apr 19 (1983)	Dec 15 (1998)
Trend	3.1 days earlier per decade	3.4 days later per decade
Years with data	54	50

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.

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.

Chart

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
2011	Mar 11	Nov 29	Feb 12	Dec 1
2010	Mar 22	Nov 26	Mar 22	Dec 6
2009	Mar 13	Nov 27	Mar 4	Dec 4
2008	Mar 10	Oct 28	Mar 9	Nov 19
2007	Apr 8	Nov 15	Apr 8	Dec 6
2006	Mar 23	Nov 2	Feb 26	Dec 1
2005	Mar 15	Nov 17	Mar 15	Nov 17
2004	Mar 10	Nov 25	Feb 17	Dec 14
2003	Mar 11	Nov 24	Mar 11	Nov 29
2002	Mar 23	Nov 17	Mar 23	Nov 27
2001	Mar 27	no data	Mar 27	no data
2000	Mar 12	Nov 14	Feb 8	Nov 17
1999	Mar 15	Nov 26	Feb 23	Nov 30
1998	Mar 14	Dec 15	Mar 14	Dec 22
1997	Mar 16	Nov 16	Jan 29	Nov 16
1996	Apr 6	Nov 3	Mar 11	Nov 27
1995	Mar 10	Nov 4	Mar 9	Nov 12
1994	Apr 7	Nov 24	Mar 10	Dec 11
1993	Mar 19	Oct 30	Mar 15	Nov 1
1992	Mar 23	no data	Mar 13	no data
1991	Apr 1	Nov 2	Mar 30	Nov 3
1990	Mar 20	Dec 4	Feb 26	Dec 22
1989	Mar 22	Nov 17	Mar 9	Nov 17
1988	Mar 19	Nov 22	Mar 16	Dec 5
1987	Apr 4	no data	Feb 10	no data
1986	Mar 22	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 13
1985	Mar 6	Nov 21	Feb 16	Dec 2
1984	Mar 11	Nov 12	Mar 11	Nov 21
1983	Apr 19	Nov 12	Mar 22	Dec 7
1982	Apr 6	Oct 22	Mar 8	Nov 5
1981	Mar 10	Oct 24	Feb 15	Oct 24
1980	no data	Nov 19	no data	Nov 20
1978	Mar 18	Nov 28	Mar 6	Dec 4
1973	Apr 13	no data	Feb 28	no data
1972	Apr 8	Oct 26	Mar 3	Nov 23
1971	Apr 7	Nov 7	Mar 24	Nov 8
1970	Mar 16	Nov 16	Mar 15	Nov 16
1969	Mar 31	no data	Mar 13	no data
1968	Apr 6	Nov 13	Mar 13	Nov 13
1967	Mar 18	Nov 4	Mar 18	Nov 6
1966	Apr 6	Nov 2	Mar 25	Nov 3
1965	Mar 27	Nov 29	Mar 20	Nov 30
1964	Apr 9	Nov 20	Mar 30	Nov 20
1963	Mar 22	no data	Feb 27	no data
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 2	Nov 5
1961	Mar 10	Oct 27	Feb 9	Nov 7
1960	Apr 10	Oct 21	Apr 10	Nov 10
1959	Mar 22	Nov 6	Mar 7	Nov 7
1958	Apr 8	Nov 7	Mar 18	Nov 27
1957	no data	Oct 27	no data	Nov 10
1956	Mar 25	Nov 9	Mar 21	Nov 9
1955	Mar 29	Nov 3	Mar 28	Nov 4
1954	Apr 2	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 2
1953	Apr 18	Nov 6	Feb 21	Nov 6
1952	Mar 23	Oct 20	Mar 23	Oct 20
1951	Apr 9	Nov 1	Mar 15	Nov 2

"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.