Leesville, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00165266, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 28 ft, 31.142, -93.240. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 21	Nov 9
Earliest	Feb 8 (2018)	Oct 8 (1952)
Latest	Apr 16 (2014)	Dec 22 (2021)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.2 days later per decade
Years with data	74	75

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.

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
2025	Mar 21	Nov 10	Feb 22	Nov 11
2024	Mar 20	Nov 30	Feb 19	Nov 30
2023	Mar 20	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 2
2022	Mar 13	Oct 19	Mar 13	Nov 18
2021	Apr 2	Dec 22	Feb 21	none
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	Feb 28	Dec 1
2019	Apr 2	Nov 1	Mar 6	Nov 13
2018	Feb 8	Nov 14	Jan 31	Nov 15
2017	Mar 3	Oct 29	Jan 9	Oct 29
2016	Mar 21	Nov 20	Feb 7	Nov 20
2015	Mar 7	Nov 23	Mar 7	Dec 19
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Mar 5	Nov 14
2013	Mar 27	Nov 13	Mar 27	Nov 14
2012	Mar 4	Oct 29	Feb 12	Nov 15
2011	Mar 11	Oct 20	Feb 13	Nov 11
2010	Mar 6	Oct 31	Mar 4	Nov 6
2009	no data	Nov 26	no data	Dec 5
2008	Apr 15	Oct 28	Feb 7	Oct 28
2007	Apr 8	Nov 16	Mar 5	Nov 16
2006	Mar 26	Nov 4	Mar 25	Nov 21
2005	Mar 18	Oct 25	Jan 24	Nov 17
2004	Mar 11	Dec 1	Feb 27	Dec 15
2003	Apr 10	Nov 24	Feb 11	Nov 25
2002	Mar 23	Nov 17	Mar 5	Nov 29
2001	Mar 21	Oct 28	Feb 6	Nov 21
2000	Apr 9	Nov 10	Feb 7	Nov 14
1999	Mar 15	Oct 24	Feb 22	Nov 3
1998	Mar 22	Dec 14	Mar 12	Dec 16
1997	Feb 17	Nov 4	Jan 31	Nov 16
1996	Apr 7	Nov 9	Mar 21	Dec 2
1995	Mar 10	Nov 12	Feb 12	Nov 30
1994	Apr 7	Dec 1	Feb 24	Dec 1
1993	Mar 15	Oct 31	Mar 14	Oct 31
1992	Mar 11	Nov 5	Jan 24	Nov 7
1991	Feb 26	Nov 4	Feb 16	Nov 4
1990	Mar 20	Nov 6	Jan 13	Nov 30
1989	Apr 11	Oct 20	Mar 8	Oct 20
1988	Mar 19	Nov 23	Mar 15	Nov 29
1987	Apr 5	Nov 11	Mar 31	Nov 12
1986	Mar 23	Nov 14	Mar 22	none
1985	Feb 17	Dec 2	Feb 16	Dec 14
1984	Mar 7	Nov 12	Mar 7	Nov 24
1983	Apr 3	Nov 12	Mar 12	Nov 29
1982	Mar 8	Oct 25	Feb 11	Dec 13
1981	Mar 24	Nov 21	Feb 14	Nov 21
1980	Mar 4	Oct 31	Mar 3	Nov 19
1979	Mar 25	Nov 14	Feb 11	Nov 29
1978	Mar 17	Nov 9	Mar 10	Dec 5
1977	Mar 23	Nov 10	Feb 28	Dec 7
1976	Mar 17	Oct 21	Feb 23	Nov 8
1975	Mar 6	Nov 14	Feb 25	Nov 14
1974	Feb 27	Nov 15	Feb 27	Dec 3
1973	Apr 11	Dec 6	Feb 12	Dec 7
1972	Mar 6	Nov 30	Feb 9	Dec 1
1971	Apr 8	Nov 8	Mar 8	none
1970	Apr 3	Nov 3	Mar 14	Nov 16
1969	Mar 27	Nov 5	Mar 10	Nov 15
1968	Mar 24	Nov 12	Mar 24	Nov 12
1967	Mar 8	Nov 2	Feb 25	Nov 5
1966	Mar 25	Nov 2	Mar 7	Nov 3
1965	Mar 21	Oct 25	Mar 21	Nov 30
1964	Mar 11	Oct 20	Feb 28	Dec 1
1963	Mar 23	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 2
1962	Apr 2	Nov 4	Mar 16	Dec 6
1961	Mar 10	Nov 9	Jan 31	Nov 9
1960	Mar 19	Nov 30	Mar 18	Dec 2
1959	Mar 23	Nov 6	Jan 24	Nov 7
1958	Mar 21	Nov 29	Feb 18	Nov 29
1957	Mar 9	Oct 27	Mar 8	Oct 28
1956	Mar 20	Nov 9	Mar 9	Nov 9
1955	Mar 30	Oct 18	Mar 30	Nov 4
1954	Mar 16	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 5
1953	Feb 22	Nov 10	Jan 18	Nov 10
1952	Mar 24	Oct 8	Mar 24	Oct 23
1951	Mar 21	Nov 3	Mar 13	Nov 3

"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.