Newport, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00035186, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 228 ft, 35.604, -91.274. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 21	Nov 6
Earliest	Feb 28 (1977)	Oct 9 (1989)
Latest	May 2 (1960)	Dec 4 (1990)
Trend	2.6 days earlier per decade	2.1 days later per decade
Years with data	72	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 21.

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 2	no data	Feb 23	no data
2024	Mar 20	Nov 29	Feb 19	Dec 2
2023	Mar 21	Oct 31	Mar 20	Oct 31
2022	Mar 14	Oct 19	Mar 13	Nov 13
2021	Apr 2	Nov 4	Feb 22	Nov 26
2020	Feb 28	Nov 30	Feb 27	Dec 1
2019	Apr 1	Nov 1	Mar 7	Nov 1
2018	Apr 9	Nov 10	Feb 14	Nov 10
2017	Mar 16	Oct 28	Mar 16	Nov 23
2016	Mar 2	Nov 20	Feb 15	Dec 8
2015	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Mar 27	Nov 1	Mar 7	Nov 13
2013	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 27	Nov 13
2012	Mar 5	Nov 13	Feb 13	Nov 28
2011	Mar 1	Nov 29	Feb 15	Dec 1
2010	Mar 5	Nov 26	Feb 26	Dec 1
2009	Mar 13	Nov 27	Mar 4	Dec 4
2008	Mar 10	Nov 10	Mar 8	Nov 21
2007	Apr 9	Nov 7	Mar 5	Nov 23
2006	Mar 26	Nov 2	Feb 22	Nov 21
2005	Mar 15	Nov 11	Mar 3	Nov 17
2004	Mar 10	Dec 1	Feb 17	Dec 14
2003	Mar 11	Nov 24	Mar 11	Nov 25
2002	Mar 27	no data	Mar 23	no data
2001	Mar 27	Oct 28	Mar 5	Dec 24
2000	Mar 12	Nov 10	Mar 12	Nov 17
1999	Mar 15	Nov 26	Feb 22	Dec 1
1998	Mar 14	Nov 6	Mar 14	Dec 22
1997	Mar 16	Nov 4	Jan 31	Nov 16
1996	Mar 27	Nov 3	Mar 26	Nov 27
1995	Mar 10	Nov 4	Mar 9	Nov 12
1994	Apr 7	no data	Feb 28	no data
1993	Mar 18	Oct 30	Mar 15	Nov 1
1992	Apr 3	Nov 7	Feb 10	Nov 7
1991	Mar 31	Nov 2	Feb 26	Nov 3
1990	Mar 20	Dec 4	Feb 25	Dec 22
1989	Apr 11	Oct 9	Mar 9	Nov 17
1988	Mar 16	Nov 17	Mar 16	Dec 5
1987	Apr 4	Nov 11	Mar 12	Dec 2
1986	Mar 22	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 13
1985	Mar 6	Nov 20	Feb 16	Dec 2
1984	Mar 11	Nov 12	Mar 10	Nov 21
1983	Apr 19	Nov 12	Mar 22	Nov 29
1982	Apr 10	Nov 5	Mar 7	Nov 5
1981	Mar 9	Oct 24	Feb 15	Oct 24
1980	Mar 18	Oct 30	Mar 14	Nov 19
1979	Apr 5	Nov 7	Mar 26	Nov 12
1978	Mar 19	Oct 16	Mar 6	Nov 8
1977	Feb 28	Nov 13	Feb 28	Nov 26
1976	Mar 17	Oct 18	Feb 8	Nov 5
1975	Apr 3	Nov 14	Mar 15	Nov 14
1974	Mar 25	Nov 15	Mar 24	Nov 15
1973	no data	Nov 6	no data	Dec 7
1972	Mar 30	Nov 24	Mar 3	Nov 29
1971	no data	Nov 7	no data	Nov 8
1970	Mar 27	Oct 10	Mar 15	Nov 16
1969	Mar 15	Nov 4	Mar 13	Nov 14
1968	Mar 23	Nov 9	Mar 4	Dec 6
1967	Mar 18	Nov 4	Mar 18	Nov 6
1966	Mar 25	Nov 2	Mar 25	Nov 3
1965	Mar 27	Nov 29	Mar 20	Nov 30
1964	Mar 30	Oct 11	Mar 30	Nov 21
1963	Mar 6	Nov 13	Feb 27	Dec 13
1962	Mar 17	Nov 5	Mar 7	Dec 10
1961	Apr 1	Oct 27	Mar 10	Nov 29
1960	May 2	Oct 20	Mar 21	Nov 7
1959	Mar 23	Nov 6	Feb 21	Nov 6
1958	Mar 21	Nov 7	Mar 21	Nov 29
1957	Apr 13	Oct 27	Mar 8	Nov 30
1956	Apr 8	no data	Mar 21	no data
1955	Mar 31	Oct 25	Mar 29	Nov 4
1954	Apr 1	Oct 30	Apr 1	Oct 30
1953	Apr 19	Oct 30	Feb 23	Nov 6
1952	no data	Oct 16	no data	Oct 21
1951	Apr 18	Nov 2	Mar 17	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.