Last Frost Day

Frost history / Ashland, MS

Ashland, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00220290, 2011 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 603 ft, 34.849, -89.160. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 31Nov 2
EarliestMar 4 (2012)Oct 18 (2022)
LatestApr 25 (2013)Nov 20 (2016)
Trend6.5 days later per decade6.9 days earlier per decade
Years with data1212

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 3020202011: Mar 172012: Mar 42013: Apr 252014: Apr 172015: Mar 292016: Mar 222018: Apr 92019: Apr 22020: Apr 162021: Apr 32022: Mar 252023: Mar 30

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202011: Oct 292012: Nov 82013: Oct 252014: Nov 22015: Nov 142016: Nov 202017: Oct 292018: Oct 222019: Nov 12020: Nov 22021: Nov 42022: Oct 18

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
2023Mar 30no dataMar 21no data
2022Mar 25Oct 18Mar 14Nov 14
2021Apr 3Nov 4Apr 3Nov 5
2020Apr 16Nov 2Apr 15Nov 2
2019Apr 2Nov 1Mar 28Nov 1
2018Apr 9Oct 22Apr 9Nov 10
2017no dataOct 29no dataOct 29
2016Mar 22Nov 20Feb 26Nov 20
2015Mar 29Nov 14Mar 29Nov 22
2014Apr 17Nov 2Apr 17Nov 2
2013Apr 25Oct 25Mar 28Nov 13
2012Mar 4Nov 8Feb 21Nov 13
2011Mar 17Oct 29Mar 11Nov 11

"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.