Lead Hill, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00034106, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 830 ft, 36.419, -92.916. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 17	Oct 17
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 18 (1981)
Latest	May 12 (1952)	Nov 16 (1972)
Trend	0.6 days earlier per decade	1.2 days later per decade
Years with data	65	68

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.

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	Apr 16	Nov 2	Apr 16	Nov 10
2024	Apr 22	Oct 16	Mar 28	Nov 23
2023	Apr 24	Oct 30	Mar 21	Oct 30
2022	Apr 19	Oct 18	Apr 9	Oct 19
2021	Apr 22	Nov 5	Apr 21	Nov 5
2020	Apr 20	Oct 30	Apr 18	Nov 28
2019	Apr 3	Oct 12	Apr 2	Oct 31
2018	Apr 20	Oct 21	Apr 9	Nov 10
2017	Apr 7	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 2	Nov 10	Mar 29	Nov 13
2015	Apr 5	Nov 8	Mar 7	Nov 9
2014	Apr 17	Nov 1	Apr 15	Nov 1
2013	May 5	Oct 22	Apr 25	Oct 25
2012	Mar 10	Oct 27	Mar 10	Oct 28
2011	Apr 6	Oct 20	Mar 16	Nov 11
2010	Mar 30	Oct 29	Mar 26	Oct 29
2009	Apr 15	no data	Apr 8	no data
2008	Apr 29	Oct 27	Apr 14	Oct 28
2007	Apr 17	no data	Apr 17	no data
2006	Apr 11	Oct 13	Apr 10	Oct 13
2005	May 5	Oct 8	May 3	Oct 25
2004	Apr 15	Oct 15	Apr 15	Nov 5
2003	Apr 13	Sep 29	Apr 12	Oct 27
2000	Apr 22	Oct 8	Apr 10	Oct 8
1999	Apr 18	Oct 4	Mar 26	Oct 20
1998	Apr 18	Oct 22	Mar 22	Dec 8
1997	May 4	Oct 22	Apr 17	Oct 28
1996	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 10	Oct 19
1995	Apr 25	Oct 21	Mar 11	Nov 3
1994	Apr 7	Oct 10	Apr 7	Oct 26
1993	Apr 21	Oct 22	Mar 24	Oct 28
1992	May 7	Oct 9	Apr 28	Nov 8
1991	no data	Oct 7	no data	Nov 2
1990	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 12	Oct 24
1989	May 7	Sep 24	Apr 11	Sep 24
1988	Apr 19	Oct 5	Mar 30	Oct 31
1987	Apr 11	Oct 3	Apr 5	Oct 8
1986	Apr 22	Oct 14	Apr 22	Nov 12
1985	Apr 25	Oct 2	Apr 9	Nov 4
1984	May 1	Sep 30	Apr 18	Oct 1
1983	Apr 25	Sep 22	Apr 19	Oct 13
1982	Apr 24	Sep 22	Apr 24	Oct 21
1981	Apr 15	Sep 18	Mar 24	Oct 19
1979	no data	Oct 5	no data	Nov 12
1978	Mar 27	Oct 17	Mar 27	Nov 28
1977	no data	Oct 13	no data	Nov 12
1976	Apr 26	Oct 17	Mar 13	Oct 28
1975	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 12	Nov 13
1974	Apr 9	Nov 6	Apr 9	Nov 13
1973	Apr 11	Nov 6	Apr 11	Nov 10
1972	Apr 4	Nov 16	Apr 1	Nov 23
1971	Apr 15	Nov 4	Apr 7	Nov 7
1970	Apr 3	Oct 10	Mar 27	Nov 16
1969	Mar 30	Oct 28	Mar 30	Oct 28
1968	Apr 6	Oct 25	Mar 24	Oct 25
1967	no data	Sep 29	no data	Nov 4
1966	Apr 10	Oct 16	Apr 6	Oct 20
1965	Mar 31	Oct 12	Mar 27	Oct 25
1964	Apr 9	Oct 6	Apr 9	Oct 20
1963	May 1	Nov 2	Mar 10	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Nov 4
1961	no data	Oct 15	no data	Nov 4
1958	May 7	Oct 2	Apr 8	Oct 27
1957	Apr 15	Oct 18	Apr 14	Oct 26
1956	Apr 23	Oct 26	Apr 23	Nov 9
1955	Apr 8	Oct 15	Apr 8	Oct 25
1954	May 5	Oct 30	Apr 1	Oct 30
1953	Apr 27	Oct 29	Apr 19	Oct 29
1952	May 12	Oct 3	Apr 16	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Oct 8	Apr 23	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.