Salem, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00036403, 2002 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 680 ft, 36.356, -91.804. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 27
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Oct 13 (2019)
Latest	May 4 (2013)	Nov 25 (2004)
Trend	4.8 days later per decade	1.2 days earlier per decade
Years with data	23	22

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 22 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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	Mar 22	no data	Mar 18	no data
2024	Apr 23	Oct 17	Mar 20	Nov 27
2023	Apr 25	no data	Mar 21	no data
2022	Apr 15	Oct 18	Apr 2	Oct 20
2021	Apr 23	Nov 4	Apr 21	Nov 4
2020	Apr 19	Oct 31	Mar 1	Nov 2
2019	Apr 3	Oct 13	Apr 3	Nov 1
2018	Apr 17	Oct 23	Apr 9	Nov 10
2017	Mar 16	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Mar 29	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 13
2015	Mar 30	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 18	Nov 1	Mar 27	Nov 1
2013	May 4	Oct 25	Mar 28	Oct 25
2012	Mar 11	Oct 29	Feb 27	Nov 8
2011	Apr 6	Oct 21	Mar 12	Nov 11
2010	Mar 24	Oct 29	Mar 6	Oct 30
2009	Apr 8	Oct 18	Apr 8	Nov 27
2008	Apr 30	Oct 27	Mar 25	Oct 29
2007	Apr 10	Oct 30	Apr 10	Nov 2
2006	Apr 10	Oct 14	Mar 27	Oct 25
2005	Mar 21	Oct 26	Mar 21	Nov 17
2004	Apr 2	Nov 25	Mar 18	Nov 25
2003	Apr 1	Oct 27	Mar 31	Nov 24
2002	no data	Oct 14	no data	Nov 23

"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.