Dequeen, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00031948, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 407 ft, 34.046, -94.348. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 31	Nov 4
Earliest	Feb 28 (2020)	Oct 8 (1952)
Latest	Apr 21 (2021)	Dec 1 (2016)
Trend	1.2 days earlier per decade	1.7 days later per decade
Years with data	72	71

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

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 10	Feb 23	Dec 15
2024	Mar 20	Nov 21	Feb 20	Nov 30
2023	Mar 21	Oct 31	Mar 21	Nov 1
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 14	Nov 14
2021	Apr 21	Nov 5	Feb 21	Nov 26
2020	Feb 28	Nov 30	Feb 27	Dec 1
2019	Apr 3	Nov 1	Mar 7	Nov 1
2018	Apr 17	Nov 10	Mar 8	Nov 11
2017	Mar 16	Oct 28	Feb 17	Oct 28
2016	Mar 22	Dec 1	Mar 22	Dec 1
2015	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 8	Nov 22
2014	Apr 15	Nov 1	Mar 6	Nov 14
2013	Mar 28	Nov 7	Mar 28	Nov 13
2012	Mar 4	Oct 28	Feb 27	Nov 13
2011	Apr 6	Oct 20	Mar 7	Oct 28
2010	Mar 22	Oct 30	Mar 5	Nov 7
2009	Apr 8	Nov 26	Apr 7	Dec 3
2008	Apr 14	Oct 28	Mar 24	Nov 17
2007	Apr 9	Nov 7	Mar 6	Nov 16
2006	Mar 25	Oct 23	Mar 25	Nov 20
2005	Mar 18	no data	Feb 11	no data
2004	Mar 31	Nov 26	Feb 18	Dec 1
2003	Apr 11	Nov 29	Mar 30	Nov 29
2002	Mar 28	Nov 7	Mar 11	Nov 17
2001	Mar 17	Nov 20	Feb 19	Nov 20
2000	Mar 21	Oct 9	Mar 12	Nov 14
1999	Mar 17	Nov 3	Mar 16	Nov 3
1998	Mar 23	Nov 11	Mar 13	Dec 15
1997	Apr 14	Nov 15	Feb 15	Nov 16
1996	Apr 8	Nov 3	Mar 22	Nov 28
1995	Mar 12	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Nov 28	Mar 11	Nov 30
1993	Mar 15	Oct 30	Mar 15	Oct 31
1992	Apr 3	Nov 5	Mar 13	Nov 6
1991	Apr 1	Nov 1	Mar 9	Nov 2
1990	Apr 8	Nov 6	Mar 20	Nov 29
1989	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 12	Oct 20
1988	Mar 30	no data	Mar 20	no data
1987	Apr 6	Nov 11	Apr 5	Nov 11
1986	Mar 23	Nov 12	Mar 2	Nov 13
1985	Mar 6	Dec 1	Feb 16	Dec 2
1984	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 22
1981	Mar 25	Oct 24	Mar 21	Nov 21
1980	Apr 16	Oct 25	Apr 15	Oct 25
1979	Apr 5	Nov 7	Mar 10	Nov 12
1978	Mar 27	Nov 8	Mar 17	Nov 28
1977	Mar 23	Oct 13	Mar 7	Nov 11
1976	Mar 10	Oct 9	Feb 23	Oct 20
1975	Apr 4	Oct 26	Apr 3	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 11	Feb 19	Dec 6
1972	Mar 31	Nov 8	Mar 5	Nov 22
1971	Apr 8	Nov 4	Apr 7	Nov 7
1970	Apr 3	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 16
1969	Mar 27	Nov 1	Mar 26	Nov 5
1968	Apr 5	Oct 28	Mar 24	Nov 9
1967	Mar 18	Oct 28	Mar 8	Nov 4
1966	Apr 6	Oct 20	Mar 25	Nov 2
1965	Mar 27	Oct 25	Mar 21	Nov 29
1964	Apr 9	Oct 20	Mar 26	Nov 20
1963	Mar 23	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 2
1962	Apr 3	Nov 4	Apr 2	Nov 4
1961	Apr 16	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 9
1960	Mar 21	Oct 20	Mar 18	Nov 6
1959	Apr 14	Nov 6	Mar 6	Nov 6
1958	Mar 20	Nov 19	Mar 20	Nov 29
1957	Apr 13	Oct 26	Mar 9	Oct 27
1956	Apr 8	Nov 9	Mar 17	Nov 9
1955	Mar 29	Oct 18	Mar 29	Nov 4
1954	Apr 2	Oct 30	Apr 1	Nov 3
1953	Apr 19	Nov 9	Mar 5	Nov 9
1952	Mar 25	Oct 8	Mar 24	Oct 16
1951	Apr 17	Nov 1	Apr 17	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.