Frost history / Wiggins, MS
Wiggins, MS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00229639, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 160 ft, 30.871, -89.121. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 15 | Nov 11 |
| Earliest | Feb 8 (1976) | Oct 20 (1964) |
| Latest | Apr 11 (1973) | Dec 16 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.1 days earlier per decade | 2.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 39 | 41 |
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feb 22 | Nov 11 | Feb 22 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | no data | Nov 30 | no data | none |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | no data | Feb 22 | no data |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 7 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2005 | Mar 22 | no data | Jan 26 | no data |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 26 | no data | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Nov 25 |
| 2000 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Dec 16 |
| 1998 | no data | Dec 16 | no data | none |
| 1997 | Feb 17 | Nov 17 | Feb 11 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | Mar 23 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 13 | Feb 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Mar 10 | Dec 10 | Feb 3 | Dec 10 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Oct 30 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Mar 23 | Nov 29 | Feb 11 | none |
| 1991 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1983 | Mar 25 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 1982 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 | Feb 7 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | Feb 13 | Nov 20 | Feb 12 | Dec 19 |
| 1980 | Mar 3 | Nov 28 | Mar 3 | Dec 20 |
| 1979 | Feb 11 | no data | Feb 11 | no data |
| 1978 | Mar 6 | Dec 5 | Mar 5 | Dec 10 |
| 1977 | Feb 28 | Dec 7 | Feb 20 | Dec 7 |
| 1976 | Feb 8 | Nov 6 | Feb 8 | Nov 23 |
| 1975 | Mar 5 | Nov 15 | Jan 14 | Dec 18 |
| 1974 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Dec 10 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | no data | Feb 22 | no data |
| 1972 | Mar 6 | Nov 17 | Feb 21 | Nov 17 |
| 1971 | Apr 8 | Nov 8 | Mar 21 | Nov 11 |
| 1970 | Mar 14 | Nov 3 | Mar 14 | Nov 17 |
| 1969 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 13 | no data |
| 1968 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 25 | no data |
| 1967 | Mar 17 | Nov 5 | Feb 27 | Dec 23 |
| 1966 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 | Mar 8 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | no data | Oct 25 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1964 | Mar 27 | Oct 20 | Feb 28 | Nov 22 |
| 1963 | Mar 24 | no data | Feb 28 | no data |
| 1962 | Mar 8 | Oct 28 | Mar 6 | Dec 6 |
| 1961 | Mar 10 | Nov 30 | Jan 31 | Dec 24 |
| 1960 | Mar 22 | Dec 1 | Mar 8 | Dec 2 |
| 1959 | Mar 7 | Nov 7 | Jan 23 | Nov 7 |
| 1957 | Mar 27 | Oct 28 | Jan 19 | Dec 1 |
| 1956 | Mar 21 | Nov 9 | Jan 17 | Nov 23 |
| 1955 | Mar 28 | Nov 4 | Mar 28 | Nov 29 |
| 1954 | Mar 16 | Nov 3 | Mar 6 | Nov 3 |
| 1953 | Feb 19 | Dec 15 | Feb 18 | Dec 15 |
| 1952 | Mar 8 | Oct 30 | Jan 11 | Oct 30 |
| 1951 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 | Feb 9 | 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.