Last Frost Day

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 frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 27Nov 7
EarliestFeb 25 (2025)Oct 12 (2019)
LatestApr 22 (2021)Nov 26 (2024)
Trend1.6 days later per decadelittle change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data2729

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 302000201020201995: Mar 101996: Mar 271997: Apr 141998: Mar 221999: Mar 162000: Mar 212001: Mar 272005: Mar 282006: Mar 262007: Apr 152009: Apr 82010: Mar 212011: Apr 62012: Mar 42013: Mar 282014: Apr 162015: Mar 72016: Mar 222017: Mar 162018: Apr 172019: Apr 12020: Apr 162021: Apr 222022: Apr 102023: Mar 212024: Mar 282025: Feb 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201994: Oct 261995: Nov 31996: Oct 311997: Nov 151998: Nov 111999: Nov 32000: Nov 102001: Nov 202004: Nov 252005: Nov 162006: Nov 22007: Nov 72008: Oct 282009: Nov 262010: Nov 62011: Oct 202012: Oct 282013: Nov 72014: Nov 12015: Nov 222016: Nov 192017: Oct 282018: Nov 102019: Oct 122020: Nov 232021: Nov 132022: Oct 192023: Oct 312024: Nov 26

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Feb 25no dataFeb 24no data
2024Mar 28Nov 26Mar 20Nov 29
2023Mar 21Oct 31Mar 21Oct 31
2022Apr 10Oct 19Mar 13Oct 20
2021Apr 22Nov 13Apr 22Nov 19
2020Apr 16Nov 23Feb 28Dec 1
2019Apr 1Oct 12Mar 7Nov 1
2018Apr 17Nov 10Apr 8Nov 10
2017Mar 16Oct 28Feb 26Oct 29
2016Mar 22Nov 19Mar 22Nov 20
2015Mar 7Nov 22Mar 7Nov 22
2014Apr 16Nov 1Mar 6Nov 2
2013Mar 28Nov 7Mar 27Nov 13
2012Mar 4Oct 28Feb 25Nov 14
2011Apr 6Oct 20Mar 7Nov 30
2010Mar 21Nov 6Mar 5Nov 7
2009Apr 8Nov 26Mar 4Dec 3
2008no dataOct 28no dataOct 28
2007Apr 15Nov 7Apr 9Nov 23
2006Mar 26Nov 2Mar 26Dec 1
2005Mar 28Nov 16Mar 18Nov 16
2004no dataNov 25no dataDec 1
2001Mar 27Nov 20Mar 17Nov 25
2000Mar 21Nov 10Mar 13Nov 10
1999Mar 16Nov 3Mar 16Dec 6
1998Mar 22Nov 11Mar 14Dec 9
1997Apr 14Nov 15Mar 16Nov 15
1996Mar 27Oct 31Mar 27Nov 26
1995Mar 10Nov 3Mar 10Nov 4
1994no dataOct 26no dataNov 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.