Last Frost Day

Frost history / Rigby, ID

Rigby, ID: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00107689, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,856 ft, 43.676, -111.912. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 16Oct 5
EarliestApr 22 (2025)Sep 9 (2020)
LatestJun 21 (2019)Oct 27 (2015)
Trend5.1 days earlier per decade4.0 days later per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 2 and the median first fall date is Oct 12.

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 29201020202010: May 232011: May 182012: May 242013: May 22014: May 132015: May 102016: May 112017: May 182018: May 32019: Jun 212020: May 232021: May 102022: May 232023: Apr 282024: May 232025: Apr 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202008: Oct 92009: Oct 12010: Oct 122011: Oct 62012: Oct 42013: Oct 52014: Sep 122015: Oct 272016: Oct 62017: Sep 232018: Sep 252019: Sep 302020: Sep 92021: Sep 292022: Oct 232023: Oct 262024: Oct 19

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
2025Apr 22no dataApr 19no data
2024May 23Oct 19May 2Oct 30
2023Apr 28Oct 26Apr 23Oct 26
2022May 23Oct 23May 11Oct 24
2021May 10Sep 29May 9Oct 12
2020May 23Sep 9May 7Oct 15
2019Jun 21Sep 30May 3Oct 6
2018May 3Sep 25Apr 18Oct 14
2017May 18Sep 23Apr 22Oct 9
2016May 11Oct 6May 11Oct 12
2015May 10Oct 27Apr 15Nov 6
2014May 13Sep 12Apr 30Sep 12
2013May 2Oct 5May 2Oct 5
2012May 24Oct 4May 7Oct 4
2011May 18Oct 6May 1Oct 26
2010May 23Oct 12May 23Oct 27
2009no dataOct 1no dataOct 6
2008no dataOct 9no dataOct 10

"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.