Frost history / Kettleman City, CA
Kettleman City, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00044534, 1955 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 240 ft, 36.007, -119.960. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 28 | Nov 24 |
| Earliest | Jan 19 (1960) | Oct 24 (2012) |
| Latest | Mar 19 (1970) | Dec 27 (2014) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 30, 1 with no freeze | 32, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2017 | Mar 7 | no data | none | no data |
| 2016 | Feb 5 | Dec 3 | none | Dec 19 |
| 2015 | Feb 25 | Nov 29 | Jan 27 | Nov 29 |
| 2014 | Feb 5 | Dec 27 | none | none |
| 2013 | Feb 27 | Dec 4 | Feb 12 | Dec 5 |
| 2012 | Mar 8 | Oct 24 | Jan 20 | Dec 8 |
| 2011 | Mar 18 | Nov 22 | Mar 1 | Dec 4 |
| 2010 | none | Nov 25 | none | Nov 25 |
| 2009 | Mar 10 | Nov 20 | Mar 10 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | Jan 31 | Dec 10 | Jan 20 | Dec 18 |
| 2007 | Feb 28 | Nov 26 | Jan 24 | Dec 1 |
| 2005 | Feb 2 | Nov 28 | none | Dec 5 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 22 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1974 | Mar 4 | no data | Feb 14 | no data |
| 1973 | Mar 18 | Nov 4 | Jan 8 | Dec 6 |
| 1972 | Feb 4 | Oct 31 | Feb 3 | Dec 6 |
| 1971 | Mar 17 | Oct 30 | Mar 5 | Oct 30 |
| 1970 | Mar 19 | Nov 14 | Jan 7 | none |
| 1969 | Mar 8 | Nov 18 | Feb 1 | Nov 26 |
| 1968 | Jan 29 | Nov 14 | Jan 29 | Nov 30 |
| 1967 | no data | Dec 2 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 1966 | Mar 4 | Nov 24 | Mar 3 | none |
| 1965 | Feb 15 | Nov 29 | none | Dec 15 |
| 1964 | Mar 10 | Nov 17 | Jan 16 | Dec 14 |
| 1963 | Mar 18 | Dec 11 | Jan 26 | Dec 13 |
| 1962 | Mar 1 | Nov 30 | Feb 27 | Dec 25 |
| 1961 | Jan 21 | Nov 17 | Jan 21 | none |
| 1960 | Jan 19 | Dec 7 | Jan 18 | Dec 7 |
| 1959 | Feb 24 | Dec 11 | Jan 4 | Dec 15 |
| 1958 | Mar 3 | Nov 16 | Jan 23 | Nov 16 |
| 1957 | Feb 4 | Dec 3 | Jan 28 | none |
| 1956 | Feb 28 | Nov 21 | Feb 17 | Dec 9 |
| 1955 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | none |
"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.