Frost history / Ozark 2, AR
Ozark 2, AR: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00035512, 1994 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 830 ft, 35.513, -93.868. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 27 | Nov 7 |
| Earliest | Feb 25 (2025) | Oct 12 (2019) |
| Latest | Apr 22 (2021) | Nov 26 (2024) |
| Trend | 1.6 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 27 | 29 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 14 and the median first fall date is Nov 19.
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 | Feb 25 | no data | Feb 24 | no data |
| 2024 | Mar 28 | Nov 26 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Oct 31 | Mar 21 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 10 | Oct 19 | Mar 13 | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 13 | Apr 22 | Nov 19 |
| 2020 | Apr 16 | Nov 23 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Apr 1 | Oct 12 | Mar 7 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 17 | Nov 10 | Apr 8 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Oct 28 | Feb 26 | Oct 29 |
| 2016 | Mar 22 | Nov 19 | Mar 22 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Nov 7 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 4 | Oct 28 | Feb 25 | Nov 14 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 20 | Mar 7 | Nov 30 |
| 2010 | Mar 21 | Nov 6 | Mar 5 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Nov 26 | Mar 4 | Dec 3 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Nov 7 | Apr 9 | Nov 23 |
| 2006 | Mar 26 | Nov 2 | Mar 26 | Dec 1 |
| 2005 | Mar 28 | Nov 16 | Mar 18 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2001 | Mar 27 | Nov 20 | Mar 17 | Nov 25 |
| 2000 | Mar 21 | Nov 10 | Mar 13 | Nov 10 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Nov 3 | Mar 16 | Dec 6 |
| 1998 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 | Mar 14 | Dec 9 |
| 1997 | Apr 14 | Nov 15 | Mar 16 | Nov 15 |
| 1996 | Mar 27 | Oct 31 | Mar 27 | Nov 26 |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Nov 3 | Mar 10 | Nov 4 |
| 1994 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 30 |
"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.