Frost history / Alexandria 5 Sse, LA
Alexandria 5 Sse, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00160103, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 85 ft, 31.249, -92.449. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 6 | Nov 14 |
| Earliest | Jan 9 (2017) | Oct 29 (2008) |
| Latest | Apr 16 (2011) | Dec 16 (1998) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 4.3 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 28 | 27, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 19 and the median first fall date is Dec 1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 | Feb 24 | Dec 15 |
| 2024 | Feb 21 | Nov 30 | Feb 19 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 | Mar 21 | Dec 12 |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 13 | Mar 13 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Feb 21 | none | Feb 19 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Nov 30 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Nov 1 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Feb 8 | Nov 14 | Jan 25 | Nov 15 |
| 2017 | Jan 9 | Oct 29 | Jan 9 | Dec 9 |
| 2016 | Feb 27 | Nov 20 | Feb 5 | Dec 10 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 2014 | Mar 5 | Nov 2 | Mar 5 | Nov 18 |
| 2013 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 3 | no data |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Nov 15 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Apr 16 | Oct 29 | Feb 14 | Nov 29 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 6 | Mar 2 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Apr 7 | Nov 27 | Mar 3 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Oct 29 | Feb 19 | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 2006 | Mar 26 | no data | Feb 20 | no data |
| 2005 | Mar 19 | Nov 18 | Jan 25 | Dec 6 |
| 2004 | Feb 28 | Dec 15 | Feb 8 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Feb 12 | Nov 25 | Feb 5 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | Nov 13 | Mar 6 | Nov 13 |
| 2001 | Feb 20 | Nov 21 | Feb 5 | Dec 26 |
| 2000 | Feb 7 | Nov 14 | Feb 7 | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Nov 4 | Jan 12 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 13 | Dec 16 | Mar 12 | Dec 26 |
| 1997 | Feb 17 | Nov 17 | Jan 20 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Dec 19 |
"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.