Collins, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00221852, 1951 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 290 ft, 31.642, -89.557. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 23	Nov 7
Earliest	Feb 17 (1985)	Oct 19 (1997)
Latest	Apr 18 (2001)	Dec 5 (1978)
Trend	0.9 days earlier per decade	2.1 days later per decade
Years with data	58	59

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 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.

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
2015	Mar 6	no data	Mar 6	no data
2014	Mar 26	Nov 14	Jan 31	Nov 19
2013	Mar 29	Nov 14	Mar 28	Dec 11
2012	Mar 4	Oct 30	Feb 13	Nov 25
2011	Mar 11	Oct 30	Feb 13	Nov 11
2010	Mar 7	Nov 6	Mar 6	Dec 1
2009	Apr 8	Nov 19	Mar 4	Nov 27
2008	Mar 25	Oct 28	Feb 28	Nov 19
2007	Mar 6	Nov 16	Mar 5	Dec 17
2006	Mar 26	Nov 17	Feb 15	Dec 4
2005	Mar 19	no data	Jan 25	no data
2004	no data	Dec 3	no data	Dec 15
2002	Mar 23	no data	Mar 6	no data
2001	Apr 18	no data	Feb 19	no data
1999	Mar 16	Nov 26	Feb 22	Dec 7
1998	no data	Nov 6	no data	Dec 16
1997	no data	Oct 19	no data	Nov 17
1996	Mar 21	Nov 27	Mar 12	Dec 18
1995	Mar 10	Nov 12	Feb 12	Dec 10
1994	Apr 1	Dec 1	Feb 14	Dec 12
1993	Mar 15	Oct 31	Mar 15	Nov 1
1992	Apr 2	Nov 7	Feb 10	Nov 30
1991	Mar 15	Nov 4	Feb 16	Nov 4
1990	Apr 8	Oct 27	Jan 14	Dec 5
1989	Apr 12	Oct 20	Feb 25	Nov 17
1988	Mar 20	Nov 29	Mar 16	Nov 29
1987	Apr 5	Oct 23	Apr 5	Nov 13
1986	no data	Nov 14	no data	Dec 29
1985	Feb 17	Dec 2	Feb 16	Dec 3
1984	Mar 7	Nov 13	Mar 7	Nov 23
1983	Mar 25	Nov 17	Feb 8	Dec 24
1982	Mar 9	Nov 5	Mar 8	Nov 14
1981	Mar 20	Nov 21	Feb 13	Nov 21
1980	Mar 4	Nov 19	Mar 3	Nov 19
1979	Mar 26	Nov 15	Feb 27	Nov 30
1978	Mar 27	Dec 5	Mar 10	Dec 10
1977	Mar 23	Nov 11	Feb 28	Nov 11
1976	Mar 17	Oct 21	Feb 23	Nov 6
1975	Mar 8	Nov 13	Mar 5	Nov 13
1974	Mar 22	Nov 13	Feb 27	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 11	Feb 22	Dec 7
1972	Mar 6	Nov 17	Mar 6	Dec 1
1971	Apr 8	Nov 8	Mar 21	Nov 8
1970	Mar 16	Nov 4	Mar 14	Nov 17
1969	Mar 28	Nov 4	Mar 11	Nov 15
1968	Mar 26	Oct 26	Mar 23	Nov 13
1967	Mar 8	Nov 4	Feb 26	Nov 8
1966	Mar 26	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 3
1965	Mar 22	Oct 25	Mar 22	Nov 30
1964	Mar 27	Oct 20	Feb 28	Nov 22
1963	Mar 23	Oct 30	Feb 27	Nov 14
1962	Apr 3	Nov 10	Mar 17	Dec 7
1961	Mar 10	Oct 26	Mar 10	Nov 9
1960	Apr 11	Nov 7	Mar 22	Nov 12
1959	Apr 14	Nov 7	Mar 7	Nov 7
1958	Apr 8	Nov 11	Mar 21	Nov 29
1957	Mar 27	Oct 27	Mar 10	Oct 28
1956	Mar 21	Nov 9	Mar 21	Nov 10
1955	Mar 31	Oct 25	Mar 29	Oct 26
1954	Mar 16	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 3
1953	Feb 18	Oct 29	Feb 13	Nov 10
1952	Apr 6	Oct 22	Feb 27	Oct 22
1951	no data	Nov 3	no data	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.