Frost history / Benton 5E, LA
Benton 5E, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00160718, 2005 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 200 ft, 32.700, -93.662. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 9 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Feb 11 (2012) | Oct 28 (2008) |
| Latest | Apr 8 (2018) | Dec 5 (2009) |
| Trend | 18.2 days later per decade | 2.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 8 | Nov 14 | Feb 9 | Nov 15 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 | Jan 27 | Dec 9 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 20 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 8 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Mar 20 | Nov 1 | Mar 20 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 | Mar 26 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Feb 11 | Nov 13 | Jan 30 | Dec 11 |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 18 | Feb 13 | Dec 8 |
| 2010 | Mar 5 | Nov 6 | Mar 3 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Mar 4 | Dec 5 | Mar 2 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 9 | Oct 28 | Feb 14 | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | Mar 5 | Nov 16 | Feb 17 | Dec 17 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 | Feb 20 | Dec 2 |
| 2005 | Feb 25 | no data | Jan 24 | no 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.