Frost history / Lafayette, LA
Lafayette, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00165021, 1989 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 25 ft, 30.219, -92.065. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 17 | Nov 28 |
| Earliest | Jan 13 (1990) | Oct 20 (1989) |
| Latest | Mar 14 (1993) | Dec 24 (2001) |
| Trend | 7.7 days later per decade | 6.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 24 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 4 and the median first fall date is Dec 7.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Mar 5 | Nov 14 | Feb 8 | none |
| 2013 | Mar 4 | Nov 13 | none | Nov 28 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Dec 21 | none | none |
| 2011 | Feb 14 | Dec 8 | Feb 13 | Dec 9 |
| 2010 | Mar 5 | Nov 27 | Feb 27 | Dec 7 |
| 2009 | no data | Dec 5 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | no data | Jan 21 | no data |
| 2007 | Mar 10 | Dec 4 | Mar 7 | Dec 17 |
| 2006 | Feb 20 | Nov 21 | Feb 13 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Jan 25 | Nov 18 | Jan 25 | Dec 6 |
| 2004 | Feb 7 | Dec 15 | Jan 29 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Jan 25 | Nov 25 | Jan 25 | Dec 7 |
| 2002 | Mar 5 | Nov 29 | Mar 5 | Dec 7 |
| 2001 | Feb 18 | Dec 24 | Feb 4 | Dec 27 |
| 2000 | Feb 6 | Nov 15 | Jan 31 | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Feb 22 | Dec 7 | Jan 10 | Dec 16 |
| 1998 | Mar 12 | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 1997 | Jan 19 | Nov 17 | Jan 18 | Dec 15 |
| 1996 | Mar 11 | Dec 18 | Mar 10 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | Feb 12 | Nov 12 | Feb 8 | Nov 12 |
| 1994 | Feb 14 | Dec 12 | Feb 2 | none |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | Oct 31 | Mar 14 | none |
| 1992 | Jan 25 | Nov 28 | Jan 20 | Nov 29 |
| 1991 | Feb 16 | Nov 4 | none | Nov 9 |
| 1990 | Jan 13 | Nov 30 | none | Dec 23 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 20 | 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.