Last Frost Day

Frost history / Plummer 3 Wsw, ID

Plummer 3 Wsw, ID: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00107188, 1991 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,905 ft, 47.311, -116.954. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 12Oct 6
EarliestApr 23 (2018)Sep 6 (1999)
LatestJun 13 (1991)Nov 3 (2015)
Trend8.4 days earlier per decade6.1 days later per decade
Years with data1414

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 13.

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 30Jun 14Jun 292000201020201991: Jun 131992: May 211997: May 231998: May 162000: May 122013: May 242014: May 122015: May 62016: Apr 252017: May 132018: Apr 232019: May 32020: May 82021: May 10

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201997: Oct 61999: Sep 62001: Oct 62002: Oct 12013: Oct 42014: Oct 282015: Nov 32016: Oct 112017: Oct 92018: Oct 32019: Sep 292020: Oct 162021: Sep 172022: Oct 23

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
2022no dataOct 23no dataNov 3
2021May 10Sep 17Apr 13Oct 12
2020May 8Oct 16Apr 17Oct 22
2019May 3Sep 29Apr 28Oct 2
2018Apr 23Oct 3Apr 23Oct 4
2017May 13Oct 9Apr 12Oct 31
2016Apr 25Oct 11Mar 19Oct 12
2015May 6Nov 3Apr 26Nov 5
2014May 12Oct 28Apr 3Nov 10
2013May 24Oct 4May 1Oct 30
2002no dataOct 1no dataOct 12
2001no dataOct 6no dataOct 10
2000May 12no dataMar 12no data
1999no dataSep 6no dataOct 14
1998May 16no dataApr 3no data
1997May 23Oct 6Apr 9Oct 10
1992May 21no dataMay 12no data
1991Jun 13no dataApr 30no data

"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.