Last Frost Day

Frost history / Brusly 2 W, LA

Brusly 2 W, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00161246, 1988 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 20 ft, 30.392, -91.271. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianFeb 19Nov 20
EarliestJan 14 (1990)Oct 20 (1989)
LatestMar 25 (2006)Dec 15 (2004)
Trend4.9 days later per decade1.5 days later per decade
Years with data2120

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 6 and the median first fall date is Dec 6.

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)

Dec 31Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31199020001989: Mar 71990: Jan 141991: Feb 171992: Feb 101993: Mar 151994: Feb 151995: Feb 131996: Mar 211997: Feb 161998: Mar 131999: Feb 252000: Feb 72001: Feb 192002: Mar 62003: Feb 122004: Feb 192005: Feb 122006: Mar 252007: Mar 62008: Feb 92009: Mar 2

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26199020001988: Nov 291989: Oct 201990: Nov 301991: Nov 41992: Nov 291993: Nov 11994: Dec 121995: Nov 121996: Nov 271997: Nov 171998: Dec 151999: Nov 32000: Nov 152001: Nov 212002: Nov 292003: Nov 252004: Dec 152005: Nov 182006: Nov 172008: Oct 28

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
2009Mar 2no dataJan 22no data
2008Feb 9Oct 28Jan 4Dec 2
2007Mar 6no dataMar 6no data
2006Mar 25Nov 17Feb 14Nov 21
2005Feb 12Nov 18Jan 25Dec 6
2004Feb 19Dec 15Jan 29Dec 15
2003Feb 12Nov 25Jan 26Nov 25
2002Mar 6Nov 29Mar 6Dec 7
2001Feb 19Nov 21Feb 5Dec 26
2000Feb 7Nov 15Feb 7Nov 22
1999Feb 25Nov 3Jan 12Dec 16
1998Mar 13Dec 15Mar 11Dec 17
1997Feb 16Nov 17Jan 20Dec 6
1996Mar 21Nov 27Mar 11Dec 19
1995Feb 13Nov 12Feb 9Dec 10
1994Feb 15Dec 12Feb 3Dec 12
1993Mar 15Nov 1Mar 15Nov 1
1992Feb 10Nov 29Jan 22Nov 29
1991Feb 17Nov 4Feb 17Nov 5
1990Jan 14Nov 30noneDec 9
1989Mar 7Oct 20Mar 6Dec 4
1988no dataNov 29no dataDec 13

"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.