Frost history / Crescent City, FL
Crescent City, FL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00081978, 1951 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 53 ft, 29.425, -81.516. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 7 | Dec 12 |
| Earliest | Jan 4 (1953) | Nov 3 (1954) |
| Latest | Mar 7 (1954) | Dec 26 (1980) |
| Trend | 2.2 days earlier per decade | 2.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27, 5 with no freeze | 25, 15 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 22 and the median first fall date is Dec 20.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2019 | none | none | none | none |
| 2018 | Jan 19 | none | Jan 19 | none |
| 2017 | Jan 9 | none | none | none |
| 2016 | Jan 25 | none | none | none |
| 2015 | Feb 21 | none | none | none |
| 2014 | Jan 8 | none | Jan 8 | none |
| 2013 | Feb 18 | none | none | none |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | none | none | none |
| 2011 | Jan 14 | none | Jan 13 | none |
| 2010 | Jan 13 | Dec 7 | Jan 12 | Dec 14 |
| 2009 | Feb 7 | none | Feb 5 | none |
| 2007 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2006 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2005 | Jan 26 | no data | Jan 24 | no data |
| 2004 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2002 | Jan 9 | no data | Jan 4 | no data |
| 2001 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2000 | Jan 27 | no data | none | no data |
| 1999 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1995 | Feb 9 | no data | Feb 9 | no data |
| 1994 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1991 | Feb 16 | no data | none | no data |
| 1990 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1989 | Feb 25 | Dec 4 | Feb 24 | Dec 24 |
| 1988 | Feb 13 | Dec 12 | none | none |
| 1987 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1983 | no data | Dec 24 | no data | Dec 24 |
| 1981 | Feb 13 | Dec 11 | Jan 19 | Dec 19 |
| 1980 | no data | Dec 26 | no data | none |
| 1954 | Mar 7 | Nov 3 | none | Dec 20 |
| 1953 | Jan 4 | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 1952 | Feb 8 | Dec 12 | Jan 30 | Dec 16 |
| 1951 | Feb 8 | Nov 18 | Feb 3 | 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.