Frost history / Baker, CA
Baker, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00040436, 1972 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 962 ft, 35.276, -116.063. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 13 | Nov 26 |
| Earliest | Jan 14 (1973) | Oct 31 (1989) |
| Latest | Mar 14 (1988) | Dec 18 (2002) |
| Trend | 3.4 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 27, 1 with no freeze | 30, 2 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 8 and the median first fall date is Dec 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Feb 28 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
| 2012 | Mar 3 | Nov 12 | Jan 30 | Dec 20 |
| 2011 | Feb 27 | Dec 5 | Feb 13 | Dec 6 |
| 2010 | Feb 12 | Nov 25 | Jan 6 | Nov 26 |
| 2009 | Feb 15 | Nov 16 | Jan 30 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Feb 16 | Dec 10 | Jan 20 | Dec 27 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 29 | no data | Dec 12 |
| 2005 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2004 | Feb 13 | Nov 30 | Feb 12 | Nov 30 |
| 2003 | Feb 9 | Nov 23 | Feb 9 | Dec 15 |
| 2002 | Mar 4 | Dec 18 | Mar 3 | Dec 18 |
| 2001 | Feb 8 | Nov 27 | Feb 8 | Nov 27 |
| 2000 | Feb 2 | Nov 12 | Jan 9 | Nov 12 |
| 1999 | Feb 12 | Nov 22 | Feb 11 | Nov 22 |
| 1998 | Jan 27 | Nov 19 | Jan 6 | Dec 7 |
| 1997 | Feb 23 | Dec 2 | Feb 8 | Dec 12 |
| 1989 | Feb 17 | Oct 31 | Feb 17 | Nov 29 |
| 1988 | Mar 14 | Nov 16 | Feb 18 | Nov 20 |
| 1987 | Feb 28 | Nov 20 | Jan 22 | Dec 15 |
| 1986 | Feb 11 | Dec 1 | Feb 10 | Dec 30 |
| 1985 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 1984 | Feb 28 | Nov 26 | Feb 28 | Dec 15 |
| 1983 | no data | Nov 22 | no data | Dec 6 |
| 1982 | Feb 7 | Nov 3 | Feb 6 | Nov 14 |
| 1981 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Dec 22 |
| 1980 | Feb 10 | Nov 14 | Jan 3 | Nov 17 |
| 1978 | Feb 15 | none | none | none |
| 1976 | Jan 27 | Nov 30 | Jan 27 | Dec 23 |
| 1975 | no data | Dec 1 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 1974 | Feb 10 | none | Jan 4 | none |
| 1973 | Jan 14 | Dec 5 | Jan 8 | none |
| 1972 | Feb 13 | Dec 6 | Feb 13 | Dec 12 |
"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.