Eunice, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00162981, 1982 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 50 ft, 30.492, -92.430. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 2	Nov 29
Earliest	Jan 13 (1990)	Oct 21 (1989)
Latest	Mar 31 (1987)	Dec 25 (2001)
Trend	2.9 days earlier per decade	1.4 days earlier per decade
Years with data	31	32

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 5 and the median first fall date is Dec 9.

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
2014	Mar 5	Nov 14	Mar 5	Nov 19
2013	Mar 26	Nov 13	none	Nov 28
2012	Feb 13	Nov 25	Feb 12	Dec 27
2011	Feb 13	Nov 29	Feb 12	Dec 8
2010	Mar 4	Nov 27	Feb 25	Dec 7
2009	Mar 2	Dec 5	Jan 21	Dec 5
2008	no data	Nov 22	no data	Dec 2
2007	Mar 5	Dec 4	Feb 16	Dec 25
2006	Feb 21	Nov 21	Feb 12	Dec 5
2005	Jan 24	Nov 18	Jan 24	none
2004	Feb 8	Dec 15	Jan 29	Dec 15
2003	Jan 26	Nov 25	Jan 25	none
2002	Mar 5	Nov 29	Mar 5	none
2001	Feb 4	Dec 25	Jan 21	Dec 27
2000	Feb 7	Nov 22	Feb 6	Dec 20
1999	Feb 22	Dec 1	Jan 11	none
1998	Mar 12	Dec 16	none	none
1997	Jan 20	Nov 17	Jan 20	none
1996	Mar 11	Dec 17	Mar 10	Dec 19
1995	Mar 9	Nov 30	Jan 24	Dec 10
1994	Feb 14	no data	Feb 3	no data
1993	Mar 14	Oct 31	Mar 14	Nov 7
1992	Jan 21	Nov 28	Jan 20	Nov 28
1991	Feb 16	Nov 4	none	Nov 4
1990	Jan 13	Dec 5	Jan 13	Dec 8
1989	Mar 8	Oct 21	Mar 7	Dec 13
1988	Mar 15	Dec 13	Feb 13	Dec 18
1987	Mar 31	Dec 15	Jan 23	none
1986	Mar 22	Nov 14	Mar 2	none
1985	Feb 16	Dec 2	Feb 4	Dec 14
1984	Mar 8	Dec 7	Feb 8	Dec 7
1983	Mar 10	Nov 29	Jan 4	Dec 23
1982	no data	Dec 13	no data	Dec 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.