Last Frost Day

Frost history / Lsu Dean Lee Rsch Stn, LA

Lsu Dean Lee Rsch Stn, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00165630, 1976 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 70 ft, 31.178, -92.411. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 4Nov 21
EarliestJan 13 (1990)Oct 15 (2010)
LatestApr 5 (1987)Dec 16 (1998)
Trend2.2 days earlier per decade1.5 days later per decade
Years with data3133

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 14 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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

Dec 31Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 1519801990200020101977: Feb 281978: Mar 61979: Feb 201980: Mar 41981: Feb 151982: Mar 71983: Mar 221984: Mar 71985: Feb 161986: Mar 221987: Apr 51988: Mar 191989: Mar 101990: Jan 131991: Feb 161992: Feb 91993: Mar 141994: Feb 271995: Mar 91996: Mar 121997: Feb 161998: Mar 131999: Mar 152000: Mar 122001: Feb 182002: Mar 232004: Feb 282005: Feb 112006: Feb 212008: Feb 142010: Feb 26

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 2619801990200020101976: Oct 211977: Nov 111978: Dec 51979: Nov 141980: Oct 311981: Nov 211982: Nov 141983: Nov 291984: Nov 221985: Dec 21986: Nov 141987: Nov 111988: Nov 291989: Oct 201990: Nov 301991: Nov 41992: Nov 291993: Oct 311994: Dec 111995: Dec 21996: Nov 271997: Nov 161998: Dec 161999: Oct 242000: Nov 142001: Nov 212002: Nov 172003: Nov 242006: Nov 122007: Dec 42008: Nov 222009: Dec 52010: Oct 15

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
2010Feb 26Oct 15Feb 16Dec 7
2009no dataDec 5no dataDec 5
2008Feb 14Nov 22Jan 21Dec 22
2007no dataDec 4no datanone
2006Feb 21Nov 12Feb 21Nov 21
2005Feb 11no dataJan 25no data
2004Feb 28no dataFeb 8no data
2003no dataNov 24no dataNov 25
2002Mar 23Nov 17Mar 4Dec 7
2001Feb 18Nov 21Feb 18Nov 21
2000Mar 12Nov 14Feb 6Nov 15
1999Mar 15Oct 24Feb 22Dec 1
1998Mar 13Dec 16Mar 12Dec 16
1997Feb 16Nov 16Jan 19Nov 17
1996Mar 12Nov 27Mar 11Dec 19
1995Mar 9Dec 2Jan 6Dec 10
1994Feb 27Dec 11Feb 14none
1993Mar 14Oct 31Mar 14Nov 1
1992Feb 9Nov 29Jan 21Nov 29
1991Feb 16Nov 4Feb 16Nov 4
1990Jan 13Nov 30Jan 13Dec 8
1989Mar 10Oct 20Mar 7Oct 20
1988Mar 19Nov 29Feb 13Dec 18
1987Apr 5Nov 11Jan 27Dec 17
1986Mar 22Nov 14Mar 2none
1985Feb 16Dec 2Feb 13Dec 14
1984Mar 7Nov 22Feb 7Dec 7
1983Mar 22Nov 29Jan 4Dec 20
1982Mar 7Nov 14Feb 10Dec 13
1981Feb 15Nov 21Feb 14Nov 21
1980Mar 4Oct 31Mar 4Dec 21
1979Feb 20Nov 14Feb 19Nov 30
1978Mar 6Dec 5Mar 5Dec 5
1977Feb 28Nov 11Feb 17Dec 7
1976no dataOct 21no dataNov 23

"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.