Hickory Flat, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00224001, 1957 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 400 ft, 34.619, -89.191. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 9	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 17 (2011)	Oct 1 (1984)
Latest	May 5 (2013)	Nov 26 (2004)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.1 days later per decade
Years with data	51	52

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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 29	Nov 13	Mar 28	Nov 22
2014	Apr 17	Nov 1	Apr 17	Nov 2
2013	May 5	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 13
2012	Apr 12	Oct 29	Mar 4	Nov 8
2011	Mar 17	Oct 21	Mar 12	Oct 30
2010	Mar 30	Oct 30	Mar 7	Nov 6
2009	Apr 9	Nov 13	Mar 4	Nov 27
2008	no data	Oct 28	no data	Oct 28
2005	Apr 3	Oct 24	Mar 18	Oct 26
2004	Apr 15	Nov 26	Mar 22	Dec 2
2000	Apr 9	Oct 8	Mar 13	Oct 9
1999	Apr 18	Oct 21	Mar 27	Oct 24
1998	Mar 22	Oct 23	Mar 22	Nov 6
1997	Apr 18	Oct 23	Apr 14	Nov 16
1996	Apr 16	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 3
1995	Apr 1	Oct 15	Apr 1	Oct 25
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 1	Nov 24
1993	Apr 22	Oct 28	Mar 15	Nov 1
1992	Apr 28	Nov 7	Apr 3	Nov 7
1991	Mar 31	Oct 7	Mar 31	Nov 4
1990	Apr 8	no data	Apr 8	no data
1989	Apr 11	Oct 20	Apr 11	Nov 3
1988	Mar 27	Oct 13	Mar 19	Nov 17
1987	Apr 5	Oct 4	Apr 5	Oct 13
1986	Apr 23	Nov 13	Mar 23	Nov 13
1985	Apr 10	Nov 5	Apr 9	Nov 5
1984	Apr 18	Oct 1	Mar 11	Nov 12
1983	Apr 25	Nov 5	Mar 29	Nov 12
1982	Apr 23	Oct 24	Apr 10	Oct 24
1981	Mar 25	Oct 20	Mar 24	Oct 24
1980	Apr 15	Oct 6	Mar 22	Oct 31
1979	Mar 26	Oct 14	Mar 26	Nov 13
1978	Mar 28	Oct 7	Mar 28	Nov 8
1977	Apr 6	no data	Mar 23	no data
1976	May 4	Oct 21	Mar 17	Nov 1
1975	Mar 31	Nov 14	Mar 15	Nov 14
1974	Mar 24	Oct 3	Mar 24	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Oct 30	Apr 11	Nov 10
1972	Apr 2	Nov 16	Mar 9	Nov 24
1971	Apr 8	Nov 5	Mar 21	Nov 8
1970	Apr 3	Nov 4	Mar 16	Nov 16
1969	no data	Nov 2	no data	Nov 5
1968	Apr 6	Oct 26	Mar 24	Nov 10
1967	no data	Oct 11	no data	Nov 4
1966	Apr 10	Oct 20	Mar 29	Nov 3
1965	Mar 21	Oct 25	Mar 21	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 10	Mar 30	Nov 21
1963	Mar 27	Oct 30	Mar 22	Oct 30
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Nov 6
1961	Apr 18	Oct 15	Mar 10	Oct 27
1960	Apr 10	Oct 21	Mar 26	Nov 6
1959	Apr 14	Nov 7	Mar 18	Nov 7
1958	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 29
1957	Apr 15	Oct 27	Mar 16	Oct 28

"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.