Columbia, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00221865, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 150 ft, 31.250, -89.836. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 16	Nov 11
Earliest	Jan 10 (2017)	Oct 19 (2022)
Latest	Apr 11 (1973)	Dec 11 (2004)
Trend	2.3 days earlier per decade	2.1 days later per decade
Years with data	63	66

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 22 and the median first fall date is Nov 27.

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
2025	Mar 21	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 11
2024	Mar 19	Nov 21	Feb 19	Nov 30
2023	Mar 20	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 2
2022	Mar 13	Oct 19	Mar 13	Nov 18
2021	Feb 23	Nov 27	Feb 21	none
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	Jan 22	Dec 1
2019	Mar 7	Nov 13	Mar 6	Nov 13
2018	Mar 16	Nov 15	Jan 25	none
2017	Jan 10	Nov 20	Jan 10	Dec 9
2016	Feb 28	Nov 20	Feb 11	Dec 10
2015	Mar 7	Nov 23	Mar 7	none
2014	Mar 27	Nov 2	Feb 28	Nov 14
2013	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 4	Nov 28
2012	Feb 13	Nov 25	Feb 13	Dec 30
2011	Feb 14	Nov 11	Feb 13	Dec 1
2010	Mar 7	Nov 6	Feb 26	Dec 6
2009	Mar 4	Nov 27	Feb 6	Dec 29
2008	Mar 26	Nov 17	Feb 15	Nov 22
2007	Mar 6	Nov 16	Feb 17	Dec 17
2006	Feb 15	Nov 20	Feb 14	Dec 5
2005	Mar 18	Nov 18	Jan 25	Dec 6
2004	Feb 18	Dec 11	Feb 8	Dec 15
2003	Mar 31	Nov 25	Jan 28	Nov 25
2002	Mar 6	Nov 23	Mar 6	Dec 7
2001	no data	Oct 30	no data	Dec 25
1992	no data	Nov 6	no data	none
1991	Feb 17	Nov 4	Feb 16	Nov 4
1990	Mar 21	Nov 30	Jan 14	Nov 30
1989	Mar 9	Oct 20	Feb 25	Dec 4
1988	no data	Nov 29	no data	Dec 13
1987	Apr 6	Nov 11	Feb 11	Dec 17
1986	no data	Nov 14	no data	none
1985	Feb 17	Dec 3	Feb 17	Dec 14
1984	Mar 8	Nov 13	Mar 7	Nov 24
1983	Mar 25	Nov 17	Mar 22	Nov 29
1982	Mar 9	Nov 5	Mar 8	Nov 5
1981	Mar 20	no data	Feb 12	no data
1980	Mar 4	Oct 31	Mar 3	Nov 19
1979	Mar 26	Nov 14	Feb 27	Nov 15
1978	Mar 27	Dec 5	Mar 5	Dec 10
1977	Mar 8	Nov 11	Feb 21	Nov 11
1976	Mar 17	Oct 21	Feb 8	Nov 6
1975	Mar 5	Nov 14	Feb 8	Nov 14
1974	Feb 27	Nov 15	Feb 27	Nov 27
1973	Apr 11	Dec 6	Feb 22	Dec 8
1972	Mar 6	Nov 17	Feb 20	Dec 1
1971	Apr 8	Nov 8	Mar 21	Nov 8
1970	Mar 15	Nov 4	Mar 14	Nov 17
1969	Mar 27	Nov 4	Mar 11	Nov 5
1968	Mar 25	Oct 26	Mar 24	Nov 13
1967	Mar 2	Oct 26	Feb 26	Nov 5
1966	Mar 25	Nov 2	Mar 25	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 2
1962	Apr 2	Nov 5	Mar 7	Nov 10
1961	Mar 10	Oct 27	Feb 10	Nov 9
1960	Mar 22	Nov 12	Mar 6	Dec 2
1959	Mar 7	Nov 7	Feb 21	Nov 7
1958	Mar 20	Nov 29	Feb 21	Nov 29
1957	Mar 27	Oct 27	Jan 19	Dec 1
1956	Mar 21	Nov 9	Mar 20	Nov 10
1955	Mar 29	Oct 31	Mar 29	Nov 29
1954	Mar 16	Nov 1	Mar 4	Nov 3
1953	Feb 18	Oct 30	Feb 18	Dec 15
1952	Mar 16	Oct 29	Jan 11	Oct 30
1951	Mar 21	Nov 3	Feb 8	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.