Minden, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00166244, 1951 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 185 ft, 32.605, -93.295. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 20	Nov 12
Earliest	Feb 16 (1997)	Oct 20 (1976)
Latest	Apr 12 (1989)	Dec 14 (1998)
Trend	1.1 days earlier per decade	0.7 days later per decade
Years with data	64	64

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.

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