Hardy, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00033132, 1999 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

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Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 29	Oct 31
Earliest	Feb 21 (2012)	Oct 8 (2000)
Latest	Apr 23 (2021)	Nov 29 (2024)
Trend	1.1 days later per decade	1.6 days later per decade
Years with data	18	21

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 11 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.

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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 19	Nov 10	Feb 24	Nov 10
2024	Mar 28	Nov 29	Mar 20	Nov 29
2023	Mar 30	Oct 31	Mar 21	Oct 31
2022	no data	Oct 18	no data	Oct 19
2021	Apr 23	Nov 4	Feb 22	Nov 20
2020	Mar 8	Oct 31	Feb 27	Dec 1
2019	Apr 2	Oct 12	Mar 7	Nov 1
2018	Apr 20	Oct 18	Apr 17	Nov 10
2017	Mar 16	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Mar 22	Nov 13	Mar 3	Nov 13
2015	Mar 29	Nov 15	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Mar 27	Nov 1
2013	Mar 28	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 13
2012	Feb 21	Oct 27	Feb 21	Nov 13
2011	Apr 1	Nov 11	Mar 1	Nov 30
2010	Mar 5	Oct 29	Mar 4	Nov 26
2003	Mar 31	Oct 27	Mar 30	Nov 24
2002	Apr 5	Nov 13	Mar 27	Nov 27
2001	Mar 27	Oct 17	Mar 27	Oct 28
2000	no data	Oct 8	no data	Nov 14
1999	no data	Nov 25	no data	Nov 25

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.