Moorhead, MS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00226009, 1951 to 2017, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 117 ft, 33.452, -90.510. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 18	Nov 11
Earliest	Feb 6 (2000)	Oct 7 (1964)
Latest	Apr 16 (1962)	Dec 22 (1998)
Trend	4.0 days earlier per decade	4.3 days later per decade
Years with data	65	65

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 3 and the median first fall date is Nov 23.

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
2017	Mar 16	Oct 29	Jan 9	Dec 9
2016	Feb 26	Nov 20	Feb 11	Dec 9
2015	Mar 8	Nov 23	Mar 7	none
2014	Mar 6	Nov 2	Mar 5	Nov 14
2013	Mar 28	no data	Mar 3	no data
2012	Feb 14	Nov 25	Feb 13	Dec 27
2011	Feb 13	Nov 30	Feb 13	Dec 8
2010	Mar 5	Nov 27	Mar 3	Dec 6
2009	Mar 4	Nov 27	Mar 3	Dec 5
2008	Mar 25	Oct 28	Mar 8	Nov 22
2007	Apr 8	Nov 23	Mar 4	Dec 17
2006	Feb 22	Nov 21	Feb 21	Dec 1
2005	Feb 11	Nov 18	Jan 25	Dec 6
2004	Feb 27	Dec 14	Feb 8	Dec 15
2003	Feb 26	Nov 25	Feb 9	Nov 29
2002	Mar 23	Nov 28	Mar 4	Dec 6
2001	Feb 18	Nov 21	Feb 3	Dec 25
2000	Feb 6	Nov 14	Feb 6	Nov 21
1999	Mar 15	Dec 21	Feb 22	Dec 22
1998	Mar 13	Dec 22	Mar 12	Dec 22
1997	no data	Nov 16	no data	Nov 16
1996	Mar 21	Nov 27	Mar 11	Dec 18
1995	Mar 9	Nov 12	Feb 12	Nov 26
1994	Mar 10	Dec 11	Feb 26	Dec 12
1993	Mar 14	Oct 31	Mar 14	Nov 1
1992	Mar 13	Nov 6	Feb 9	Nov 29
1991	Feb 26	Nov 3	Feb 16	Nov 4
1990	Mar 20	Nov 30	Jan 13	Dec 8
1989	Apr 11	Oct 20	Mar 9	Nov 17
1988	Mar 19	Dec 2	Mar 15	Dec 5
1987	Apr 5	Nov 11	Apr 4	Dec 16
1986	Mar 22	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 13
1985	Feb 16	Dec 2	Feb 16	Dec 2
1984	Mar 11	Nov 12	Feb 8	Nov 22
1983	Mar 22	Nov 29	Mar 22	Dec 19
1982	Mar 8	Nov 5	Mar 8	Nov 5
1981	Mar 20	Oct 24	Mar 19	Nov 21
1980	Mar 6	Oct 31	Mar 3	Nov 20
1979	Mar 25	Nov 12	Feb 19	Nov 29
1978	Mar 5	Nov 9	Mar 5	Dec 9
1977	Mar 23	Nov 11	Feb 20	Nov 26
1976	Feb 23	Nov 5	Feb 8	Nov 5
1975	Apr 4	Nov 14	Mar 5	Nov 14
1974	Mar 24	Nov 15	Feb 26	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Dec 7	Feb 28	Dec 7
1972	Mar 3	Nov 23	Feb 8	Nov 24
1971	Apr 7	Nov 8	Mar 8	Nov 8
1970	Mar 15	Nov 16	Feb 26	Nov 16
1969	Mar 14	Nov 5	Mar 11	Nov 15
1968	Mar 24	Nov 10	Mar 24	Dec 8
1967	Mar 18	Nov 4	Mar 7	Nov 4
1966	Mar 27	Nov 3	Mar 25	Nov 3
1965	Mar 27	Oct 25	Mar 21	Oct 25
1964	Mar 30	Oct 7	Mar 30	Nov 21
1963	Mar 22	Oct 30	Feb 26	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Nov 1	Mar 7	Dec 6
1961	Mar 10	Oct 27	Feb 10	Oct 27
1960	Mar 22	Oct 21	Mar 20	Nov 6
1959	Apr 14	Nov 6	Feb 21	Nov 7
1958	Mar 21	Nov 7	Mar 20	Nov 29
1957	Apr 13	Oct 28	Mar 27	Oct 28
1956	Mar 25	Nov 9	Mar 20	Nov 9
1955	Mar 29	Oct 25	Mar 29	Nov 4
1954	Apr 1	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 3
1953	Feb 23	no data	Feb 22	no data
1952	Mar 24	Oct 16	Jan 30	Oct 21
1951	no data	Nov 2	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.