Frost history / Kingston 2S, AR
Kingston 2S, AR: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00033909, 2007 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,145 ft, 36.009, -93.521. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 12 | Nov 5 |
| Earliest | Mar 9 (2012) | Oct 7 (2012) |
| Latest | May 5 (2013) | Nov 22 (2024) |
| Trend | 6.7 days later per decade | 12.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 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.
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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 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | no data | Nov 22 | no data | Nov 26 |
| 2023 | Apr 16 | no data | Mar 21 | no data |
| 2022 | Apr 9 | no data | Apr 1 | no data |
| 2021 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 2020 | Apr 18 | Oct 27 | Apr 18 | Nov 30 |
| 2019 | Apr 14 | no data | Apr 2 | no data |
| 2018 | Apr 20 | Nov 9 | Apr 17 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 25 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | May 3 | Nov 19 | Apr 3 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Apr 4 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 |
| 2013 | May 5 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2012 | Mar 9 | Oct 7 | Feb 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 2010 | Mar 30 | Nov 5 | Mar 30 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Oct 12 | Apr 8 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 9 | Nov 6 | Apr 9 | Nov 22 |
"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.