Last Frost Day

Frost history / Iuka, MS

Iuka, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00224455, 1978 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 600 ft, 34.763, -88.196. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 12Oct 19
EarliestMar 26 (1979)Oct 2 (1984)
LatestMay 5 (2004)Nov 7 (1992)
Trend3.2 days later per decade5.0 days later per decade
Years with data2827

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 151980199020001978: Mar 291979: Mar 261980: Apr 61982: Apr 241983: Apr 251984: Apr 181985: Apr 101986: Apr 231987: Apr 71989: Apr 131990: Apr 91991: Apr 11992: Apr 301993: Apr 231994: Apr 91995: Apr 21996: Apr 171997: Apr 191998: Apr 131999: Apr 192000: Apr 102001: Apr 202002: Apr 82003: Apr 122004: May 52005: May 22006: Apr 112009: Apr 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 261980199020001978: Oct 81979: Oct 141980: Oct 131981: Oct 201982: Oct 231983: Oct 271984: Oct 21985: Oct 81986: Oct 161987: Oct 41989: Oct 201990: Oct 191991: Oct 71992: Nov 71993: Oct 231994: Oct 271995: Oct 151996: Oct 191997: Oct 191998: Oct 251999: Oct 212000: Oct 82001: Oct 172002: Nov 22003: Oct 282004: Nov 62006: Oct 21

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
2009Apr 8no dataMar 4no data
2006Apr 11Oct 21Mar 28Oct 23
2005May 2no dataApr 4no data
2004May 5Nov 6Apr 5Nov 26
2003Apr 12Oct 28Mar 31Nov 14
2002Apr 8Nov 2Apr 7Nov 7
2001Apr 20Oct 17Apr 19Oct 18
2000Apr 10Oct 8Apr 10Oct 9
1999Apr 19Oct 21Mar 27Oct 24
1998Apr 13Oct 25Mar 23Nov 6
1997Apr 19Oct 19Apr 19Oct 28
1996Apr 17Oct 19Apr 11Nov 3
1995Apr 2Oct 15Mar 12Nov 4
1994Apr 9Oct 27Apr 5Nov 24
1993Apr 23Oct 23Apr 22Nov 1
1992Apr 30Nov 7Apr 4Nov 7
1991Apr 1Oct 7Apr 1Oct 7
1990Apr 9Oct 19Apr 9Oct 27
1989Apr 13Oct 20Apr 12Nov 4
1987Apr 7Oct 4Apr 4Oct 8
1986Apr 23Oct 16Mar 23Nov 13
1985Apr 10Oct 8Apr 9Nov 8
1984Apr 18Oct 2Apr 1Nov 13
1983Apr 25Oct 27Apr 20Nov 6
1982Apr 24Oct 23Apr 10Oct 26
1981no dataOct 20no dataOct 24
1980Apr 6Oct 13Mar 22Oct 31
1979Mar 26Oct 14Mar 26Nov 4
1978Mar 29Oct 8Mar 28Nov 9

"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.