Last Frost Day

Frost history / Sioux City Ang, IA

Sioux City Ang, IA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00137702, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,100 ft, 42.396, -96.378. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 27Oct 13
EarliestApr 13 (2012)Sep 23 (2012)
LatestMay 23 (2022)Oct 22 (2025)
Trend0.8 days earlier per decade5.4 days later per decade
Years with data1515

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 20.

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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3020202011: May 42012: Apr 132013: May 132014: May 182015: Apr 232016: Apr 132017: May 22018: Apr 222019: Apr 152020: May 132021: May 62022: May 232023: Apr 272024: Apr 222025: Apr 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 2720202011: Oct 172012: Sep 232013: Oct 142014: Oct 42015: Oct 172016: Oct 132017: Oct 102018: Oct 132019: Oct 32020: Oct 12021: Oct 222022: Oct 82023: Oct 112024: Oct 152025: Oct 22

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 20Oct 22Apr 9Nov 2
2024Apr 22Oct 15Apr 22Oct 17
2023Apr 27Oct 11Apr 24Oct 28
2022May 23Oct 8Apr 27Oct 8
2021May 6Oct 22Apr 23Nov 1
2020May 13Oct 1Apr 18Oct 24
2019Apr 15Oct 3Apr 15Oct 4
2018Apr 22Oct 13Apr 20Oct 15
2017May 2Oct 10Apr 12Oct 12
2016Apr 13Oct 13Apr 12Oct 13
2015Apr 23Oct 17Apr 22Oct 26
2014May 18Oct 4May 17Oct 31
2013May 13Oct 14Apr 26Oct 22
2012Apr 13Sep 23Apr 13Oct 5
2011May 4Oct 17May 4Oct 20

"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.