Frost history / Orange Springs 2SSW, FL

Orange Springs 2SSW, FL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00086618, 2000 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 50 ft, 29.479, -81.968. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 4	Nov 28
Earliest	Jan 27 (2001)	Nov 17 (2007)
Latest	Mar 29 (2013)	Dec 27 (2001)
Trend	17.8 days later per decade	14.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data	13	13, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 14 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
2014	Feb 14	Nov 20	Jan 8	Nov 20
2013	Mar 29	Nov 28	Mar 4	none
2012	Feb 14	Nov 25	Feb 14	Dec 23
2011	Mar 12	none	Jan 24	none
2010	Mar 7	Dec 2	Feb 17	Dec 8
2009	Mar 4	no data	Feb 7	no data
2008	Mar 10	Nov 19	Feb 28	Nov 24
2007	no data	Nov 17	no data	none
2006	Feb 15	no data	Feb 14	no data
2005	Feb 12	Dec 23	Jan 25	none
2004	Mar 12	Dec 15	Mar 12	Dec 27
2003	Jan 29	Dec 18	Jan 26	Dec 21
2002	Mar 6	Nov 29	Mar 5	none
2001	Jan 27	Dec 27	Jan 26	Dec 27
2000	no data	Nov 22	no data	Nov 22

"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.