Last Frost Day

Frost history / Kooskia 5 Sse, ID

Kooskia 5 Sse, ID: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00105013, 1990 to 2005, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,330 ft, 46.071, -115.934. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 6Oct 1
EarliestApr 25 (1998)Aug 24 (1992)
LatestMay 14 (1995)Oct 24 (1994)
Trend2.7 days earlier per decade10.7 days earlier per decade
Years with data1110

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30199020001990: May 81991: May 31992: May 121994: Apr 291995: May 141997: May 21998: Apr 251999: May 112000: May 62001: May 62005: May 2

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 13Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11199020001990: Oct 71991: Oct 41992: Aug 241993: Sep 211994: Oct 241996: Sep 231997: Oct 81998: Oct 111999: Sep 282002: Aug 27

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2005May 2no dataApr 14no data
2002no dataAug 27no dataSep 9
2001May 6no dataApr 5no data
2000May 6no dataMar 24no data
1999May 11Sep 28May 8Oct 16
1998Apr 25Oct 11Apr 13Oct 17
1997May 2Oct 8Apr 12Oct 25
1996no dataSep 23no dataOct 17
1995May 14no dataApr 18no data
1994Apr 29Oct 24Apr 8Oct 29
1993no dataSep 21no dataSep 22
1992May 12Aug 24Apr 7Nov 10
1991May 3Oct 4Mar 27Oct 18
1990May 8Oct 7Mar 27Oct 7

"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.