Searcy, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00036506, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 230 ft, 35.268, -91.717. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 1	Nov 2
Earliest	Mar 6 (2010)	Oct 8 (2000)
Latest	Apr 21 (2021)	Nov 29 (2024)
Trend	0.5 days earlier per decade	1.3 days later per decade
Years with data	71	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.

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