Frost history / Winter Haven, FL
Winter Haven, FL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00089707, 1951 to 2007, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 145 ft, 28.015, -81.733. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 10 | Dec 23 |
| Earliest | Jan 2 (1963) | Nov 24 (1970) |
| Latest | Apr 5 (1987) | Dec 30 (2000) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 2.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 49, 12 with no freeze | 47, 29 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 24 and the median first fall date is Dec 22.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | none | none | none | none |
| 2006 | none | none | none | none |
| 2005 | none | none | none | none |
| 2004 | none | none | none | none |
| 2003 | Jan 24 | none | Jan 24 | none |
| 2002 | Jan 4 | none | none | none |
| 2001 | none | none | none | none |
| 2000 | Jan 26 | Dec 30 | none | none |
| 1998 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1997 | Jan 19 | no data | none | no data |
| 1996 | Feb 17 | none | Feb 5 | none |
| 1995 | Feb 9 | none | none | none |
| 1994 | none | none | none | none |
| 1993 | none | none | none | none |
| 1992 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1991 | Feb 16 | none | none | none |
| 1990 | none | none | none | none |
| 1989 | Feb 26 | Dec 24 | Feb 26 | Dec 24 |
| 1988 | Mar 16 | no data | none | no data |
| 1987 | Apr 5 | none | Jan 24 | none |
| 1986 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1985 | Jan 27 | Dec 26 | Jan 23 | Dec 26 |
| 1984 | Mar 1 | no data | none | no data |
| 1983 | Jan 17 | Dec 24 | none | Dec 24 |
| 1982 | Jan 16 | none | Jan 15 | none |
| 1981 | Jan 27 | Dec 19 | Jan 19 | none |
| 1980 | Mar 3 | none | Mar 3 | none |
| 1978 | Feb 23 | none | Feb 23 | none |
| 1977 | Feb 22 | Dec 28 | Jan 21 | none |
| 1976 | Feb 10 | no data | none | no data |
| 1975 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1974 | none | Dec 5 | none | none |
| 1973 | Jan 30 | Dec 12 | none | Dec 22 |
| 1972 | Feb 21 | Dec 28 | none | none |
| 1971 | Mar 5 | none | Jan 20 | none |
| 1970 | Feb 4 | Nov 24 | Feb 4 | Nov 25 |
| 1969 | Feb 19 | none | none | none |
| 1968 | Mar 2 | Dec 16 | none | Dec 16 |
| 1967 | Feb 26 | Dec 24 | Jan 29 | none |
| 1966 | Feb 6 | Dec 25 | Feb 5 | none |
| 1965 | Jan 18 | none | Jan 18 | none |
| 1964 | Feb 12 | none | Jan 14 | none |
| 1963 | Jan 2 | Dec 19 | none | none |
| 1962 | Mar 8 | Dec 11 | none | Dec 11 |
| 1961 | Jan 23 | Dec 26 | none | Dec 26 |
| 1960 | Jan 24 | Dec 22 | Jan 24 | none |
| 1959 | Jan 19 | none | none | none |
| 1958 | Feb 18 | none | none | none |
| 1957 | none | Dec 12 | none | Dec 12 |
| 1955 | Feb 13 | no data | none | no data |
| 1953 | none | none | none | none |
| 1952 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1951 | Feb 3 | 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.