Frost history / Buras, LA
Buras, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00161292, 1951 to 2005, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 5 ft, 29.341, -89.516. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 12 | Dec 16 |
| Earliest | Jan 5 (1969) | Nov 30 (1959) |
| Latest | Mar 10 (1996) | Dec 23 (1963) |
| Trend | 1.8 days earlier per decade | 1.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 28, 9 with no freeze | 29, 17 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 30 and the median first fall date is Dec 18.
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.
Chart
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 2004 | none | Dec 16 | none | Dec 16 |
| 2003 | Jan 25 | none | none | none |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | none | none | none |
| 2000 | Feb 6 | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 1999 | Jan 10 | none | Jan 5 | none |
| 1998 | none | none | none | none |
| 1997 | Jan 20 | none | none | none |
| 1996 | Mar 10 | Dec 19 | Feb 5 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | none | none | none | none |
| 1994 | Feb 2 | none | none | none |
| 1993 | none | none | none | none |
| 1992 | none | none | none | none |
| 1991 | none | none | none | none |
| 1990 | none | none | none | none |
| 1989 | no data | Dec 14 | no data | Dec 22 |
| 1969 | Jan 5 | no data | none | no data |
| 1968 | Mar 1 | none | none | none |
| 1967 | none | none | none | none |
| 1966 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1965 | Feb 25 | no data | Jan 17 | no data |
| 1964 | Jan 15 | none | Jan 15 | none |
| 1963 | Feb 23 | Dec 23 | Jan 25 | Dec 23 |
| 1962 | no data | Dec 12 | no data | Dec 12 |
| 1960 | Mar 6 | Dec 17 | Feb 14 | none |
| 1959 | no data | Nov 30 | no data | none |
| 1958 | Feb 21 | Dec 15 | Feb 14 | Dec 17 |
| 1957 | Jan 19 | Dec 2 | none | none |
| 1956 | Feb 12 | no data | Jan 1 | no data |
| 1955 | Feb 12 | none | Jan 30 | none |
| 1954 | Mar 9 | Dec 14 | Mar 7 | Dec 18 |
| 1953 | no data | Dec 16 | no data | none |
| 1951 | Feb 4 | none | Feb 4 | none |
"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.