Frost history / Vicksburg City, MS
Vicksburg City, MS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00229230, 2003 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 80 ft, 32.385, -90.875. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 4 | Nov 16 |
| Earliest | Jan 21 (2020) | Oct 19 (2022) |
| Latest | Mar 28 (2013) | Dec 15 (2004) |
| Trend | 7.7 days earlier per decade | 4.0 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 18, 1 with no freeze | 19, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 25.
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mar 14 | Oct 19 | Mar 13 | Nov 13 |
| 2021 | Feb 21 | Nov 27 | Feb 21 | none |
| 2020 | Jan 21 | Dec 1 | none | none |
| 2019 | none | Nov 13 | none | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Feb 9 | Nov 15 | Feb 3 | none |
| 2017 | Feb 5 | Dec 8 | Jan 9 | Dec 9 |
| 2016 | Feb 11 | Nov 20 | Jan 24 | Dec 10 |
| 2015 | Mar 8 | none | Mar 8 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 26 | Nov 2 | Mar 5 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 | Mar 4 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Nov 13 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Mar 7 | Nov 18 | Feb 12 | Nov 18 |
| 2010 | Mar 5 | Nov 6 | Feb 26 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Mar 4 | Dec 5 | Mar 3 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 9 | Nov 16 | Feb 14 | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | Nov 7 | Feb 19 | Dec 4 |
| 2006 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 21 |
| 2005 | Feb 12 | no data | Jan 25 | no data |
| 2004 | Feb 28 | Dec 15 | Feb 18 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Nov 25 |
"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.