Conway, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00031596, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 312 ft, 35.103, -92.490. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 30	Nov 2
Earliest	Feb 27 (2012)	Oct 8 (1952)
Latest	Apr 21 (2021)	Dec 8 (1998)
Trend	1.6 days earlier per decade	1.3 days later per decade
Years with data	69	70

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 16 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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
2025	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 10
2024	Mar 27	Oct 17	Mar 19	Nov 29
2023	Mar 21	Oct 31	Mar 20	Oct 31
2022	Apr 9	Oct 19	Apr 9	Oct 19
2021	Apr 21	Nov 4	Mar 3	Nov 5
2020	Apr 15	Nov 2	Feb 28	Dec 1
2019	Apr 2	Nov 1	Mar 16	Nov 1
2018	Apr 16	Nov 10	Apr 8	Nov 10
2017	Mar 16	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Mar 26	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 13
2015	Mar 29	Nov 14	Mar 8	Nov 22
2014	Mar 27	Nov 1	Mar 7	Nov 1
2013	Apr 5	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 13
2012	Feb 27	Nov 13	Feb 14	Nov 24
2011	Mar 11	Nov 11	Feb 13	Nov 30
2010	Mar 6	Oct 30	Mar 4	Nov 26
2009	Mar 12	Nov 27	Mar 4	Nov 27
2006	Mar 26	Nov 2	Feb 21	Nov 21
2005	Mar 14	Nov 17	Mar 2	Nov 17
2004	Mar 10	Nov 25	Feb 18	Dec 1
2003	Mar 31	Nov 24	Mar 11	Nov 25
2002	Mar 27	Nov 17	Mar 23	Nov 27
2001	no data	Oct 27	no data	Nov 21
2000	Mar 12	Nov 9	Mar 11	Nov 13
1999	Mar 15	Nov 2	Mar 3	Dec 5
1998	Mar 13	Dec 8	Mar 12	Dec 15
1997	Apr 15	Nov 16	Jan 31	Nov 16
1996	Mar 26	Nov 3	Mar 11	Nov 27
1995	Mar 10	Nov 4	Feb 18	Nov 4
1994	Apr 7	Oct 26	Mar 31	Dec 12
1993	Mar 18	Oct 28	Mar 14	Oct 31
1992	Apr 3	Nov 6	Mar 13	Nov 6
1991	Mar 31	Nov 2	Mar 30	Nov 2
1990	Apr 7	Oct 26	Mar 26	Nov 30
1989	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 19
1988	Mar 30	Nov 17	Mar 19	Nov 17
1987	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 11
1985	Apr 9	no data	Mar 5	no data
1984	Mar 11	Nov 3	Mar 9	Nov 22
1983	Apr 19	Nov 12	Mar 22	Nov 12
1982	Apr 10	Oct 23	Mar 8	Nov 5
1981	Mar 24	Oct 24	Mar 9	Oct 24
1980	Apr 15	Oct 25	Mar 18	Oct 30
1979	Apr 5	no data	Mar 11	no data
1978	Mar 27	Nov 8	Mar 17	Nov 28
1977	Mar 23	Nov 10	Mar 7	Nov 26
1976	Mar 17	Oct 18	Feb 23	Nov 5
1975	Apr 4	Nov 14	Apr 3	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Nov 15	Mar 24	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 11	Apr 11	Nov 11
1972	Apr 2	Oct 26	Mar 9	Nov 23
1971	Apr 7	Nov 4	Apr 7	Nov 7
1970	Apr 3	Nov 6	Mar 27	Nov 16
1969	Mar 30	Nov 5	Mar 27	Nov 5
1968	Apr 5	Oct 29	Mar 24	Nov 9
1967	Mar 18	Oct 28	Mar 18	Nov 4
1966	Apr 6	Oct 20	Mar 25	Nov 3
1965	Mar 27	Oct 25	Mar 21	Oct 25
1964	Apr 9	Oct 10	Mar 31	Nov 20
1963	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 8	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Nov 4	Mar 7	Nov 9
1961	Mar 10	Oct 20	Mar 10	Oct 27
1960	Mar 26	Oct 20	Mar 20	Nov 7
1959	Apr 14	Oct 28	Mar 22	Nov 6
1958	Mar 20	Nov 7	Mar 20	Nov 7
1957	Apr 14	Oct 26	Mar 8	Oct 27
1956	Apr 8	Nov 9	Mar 20	Nov 9
1955	Mar 29	Nov 3	Mar 29	Nov 4
1954	Apr 1	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 2
1953	Apr 19	Nov 6	Feb 23	Nov 6
1952	Apr 6	Oct 8	Mar 16	Oct 21
1951	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 20	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.