Frost history / Malta 4 Ese, ID
Malta 4 Ese, ID: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00105563, 1965 to 2002, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,590 ft, 42.292, -113.304. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jun 13 | Sep 12 |
| Earliest | May 4 (1987) | Aug 18 (1978) |
| Latest | Jul 8 (1981) | Oct 7 (1990) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 35 | 33 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 16 and the median first fall date is Sep 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Jun 11 | no data | Jun 10 | no data |
| 2001 | Jun 19 | Sep 7 | May 21 | Sep 8 |
| 2000 | Jun 1 | Sep 23 | Jun 1 | Sep 23 |
| 1999 | Jun 26 | Sep 1 | May 16 | Sep 27 |
| 1998 | Jun 5 | Oct 5 | Apr 27 | Oct 5 |
| 1997 | Jun 24 | Sep 28 | May 2 | Oct 6 |
| 1996 | May 23 | Aug 19 | Apr 29 | Sep 18 |
| 1995 | Jun 7 | Sep 21 | Jun 7 | Sep 21 |
| 1994 | May 21 | Sep 22 | Apr 29 | Oct 23 |
| 1993 | Jun 13 | Aug 26 | Jun 13 | Sep 14 |
| 1992 | Jun 13 | Aug 24 | May 2 | Aug 25 |
| 1991 | Jun 15 | Sep 15 | May 1 | Sep 22 |
| 1990 | Jun 13 | Oct 7 | May 16 | Oct 7 |
| 1989 | Jun 21 | Sep 10 | May 26 | Sep 11 |
| 1988 | Jun 30 | Sep 19 | Jun 7 | Oct 23 |
| 1987 | May 4 | Sep 17 | Apr 20 | Sep 17 |
| 1986 | Jul 6 | Sep 15 | May 23 | Sep 22 |
| 1985 | Jun 26 | Sep 10 | May 13 | Sep 25 |
| 1984 | Jun 12 | Sep 14 | May 7 | Sep 22 |
| 1983 | May 20 | Sep 10 | May 14 | Sep 20 |
| 1982 | Jun 9 | Sep 11 | May 31 | Oct 6 |
| 1981 | Jul 8 | Sep 20 | May 13 | Sep 23 |
| 1980 | Jun 15 | Sep 22 | Apr 16 | Sep 22 |
| 1979 | Jun 9 | Sep 11 | Jun 8 | Sep 11 |
| 1978 | Jun 1 | Aug 18 | Jun 1 | Sep 20 |
| 1977 | May 29 | Sep 9 | May 5 | Oct 4 |
| 1976 | Jun 15 | Sep 8 | May 1 | Sep 8 |
| 1975 | Jun 19 | Sep 18 | May 26 | Sep 19 |
| 1974 | Jun 8 | Sep 12 | May 31 | Sep 13 |
| 1973 | Jun 19 | Sep 26 | May 11 | Oct 3 |
| 1972 | May 27 | Sep 12 | May 9 | Sep 25 |
| 1971 | May 19 | Sep 4 | May 18 | Sep 18 |
| 1970 | no data | Sep 10 | no data | Sep 14 |
| 1967 | May 31 | no data | May 26 | no data |
| 1966 | Jul 3 | no data | Jun 23 | no data |
| 1965 | Jun 18 | Aug 29 | May 11 | Aug 31 |
"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.