Frost history / Okeechobee, FL
Okeechobee, FL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00086485, 1951 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 18 ft, 27.151, -80.865. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jan 22 | Dec 17 |
| Earliest | Jan 5 (2001) | Dec 7 (2010) |
| Latest | Mar 4 (1980) | Dec 31 (2000) |
| Trend | 1.5 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 38, 17 with no freeze | 41, 31 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 23 and the median first fall date is Dec 14.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jan 13 | Dec 7 | Jan 12 | Dec 14 |
| 2009 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2008 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2007 | Feb 20 | none | none | none |
| 2006 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2004 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2002 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2001 | Jan 5 | none | none | none |
| 2000 | Jan 27 | Dec 31 | none | none |
| 1999 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1994 | none | none | none | none |
| 1993 | none | none | none | none |
| 1992 | none | none | none | none |
| 1991 | none | none | none | none |
| 1990 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1989 | Feb 26 | Dec 24 | Feb 25 | Dec 24 |
| 1988 | Jan 27 | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 1987 | Jan 12 | none | none | none |
| 1986 | Mar 1 | none | Jan 29 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 14 | no data | Jan 23 | no data |
| 1984 | none | none | none | none |
| 1983 | none | Dec 25 | none | Dec 26 |
| 1982 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1981 | Jan 18 | Dec 11 | Jan 13 | none |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | no data | none | no data |
| 1979 | none | none | none | none |
| 1978 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1977 | Jan 23 | none | Jan 21 | none |
| 1976 | Jan 19 | none | none | none |
| 1975 | none | none | none | none |
| 1970 | Jan 10 | no data | none | no data |
| 1969 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1968 | none | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 1967 | Feb 27 | none | none | none |
| 1966 | Feb 1 | none | Feb 1 | none |
| 1965 | Jan 19 | none | none | none |
| 1964 | Jan 16 | none | none | none |
| 1963 | none | none | none | none |
| 1962 | none | Dec 13 | none | Dec 13 |
| 1961 | Jan 22 | Dec 30 | none | none |
| 1960 | Jan 22 | none | none | none |
| 1959 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1957 | none | Dec 12 | none | Dec 12 |
| 1956 | Jan 15 | none | none | none |
| 1955 | none | none | none | none |
| 1954 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1951 | none | none | none | 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.