Last Frost Day

Frost history / Marrero 9 Ssw, LA

Marrero 9 Ssw, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00165926, 1992 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3 ft, 29.785, -90.116. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianFeb 8Dec 15
EarliestJan 9 (2017)Nov 1 (1993)
LatestMar 16 (1993)Dec 28 (1994)
Trend5.7 days earlier per decade5.0 days earlier per decade
Years with data1416, 4 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 20 and the median first fall date is Dec 19.

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)

Dec 31Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31200020101992: Jan 221993: Mar 161994: Feb 31995: Feb 91997: Feb 121998: Mar 111999: Feb 152000: Feb 72001: Jan 262002: Mar 62008: Jan 252017: Jan 92018: Jan 202019: Mar 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26Jan 10200020101992: Nov 291993: Nov 11994: Dec 281996: Dec 191997: Dec 151999: Dec 162001: Dec 262003: Dec 212004: Dec 152017: Dec 142018: Nov 162019: Nov 13

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
2019Mar 7Nov 13noneNov 13
2018Jan 20Nov 16Jan 20none
2017Jan 9Dec 14Jan 9none
2016no datanoneno datanone
2015no datanoneno datanone
2008Jan 25no dataJan 4no data
2004no dataDec 15no dataDec 20
2003no dataDec 21no datanone
2002Mar 6noneMar 5none
2001Jan 26Dec 26Jan 5none
2000Feb 7no datanoneno data
1999Feb 15Dec 16Feb 15none
1998Mar 11nonenonenone
1997Feb 12Dec 15Jan 19none
1996no dataDec 19no dataDec 19
1995Feb 9no datanoneno data
1994Feb 3Dec 28Jan 20none
1993Mar 16Nov 1Mar 14none
1992Jan 22Nov 29Jan 21none

"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.