Last Frost Day

Frost history / Anderson 3W, MO

Anderson 3W, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00230163, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,117 ft, 36.645, -94.486. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 19Oct 29
EarliestMar 11 (2012)Oct 12 (2019)
LatestMay 6 (2013)Nov 13 (2016)
Trend2.6 days later per decade0.8 days later per decade
Years with data1716

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202009: Apr 152010: Apr 92011: May 42012: Mar 112013: May 62014: May 32015: Apr 52016: Apr 32017: Apr 92018: Apr 202019: Apr 132020: Apr 192021: Apr 222022: Apr 192023: Apr 242024: Apr 222025: Apr 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202008: Oct 282009: Oct 192010: Oct 302011: Oct 192013: Oct 262014: Nov 12015: Nov 82016: Nov 132017: Oct 252018: Nov 102019: Oct 122020: Oct 162021: Nov 52022: Oct 182023: Oct 302025: Oct 31

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
2025Apr 8Oct 31Apr 7Nov 2
2024Apr 22no dataMar 29no data
2023Apr 24Oct 30Mar 20Oct 30
2022Apr 19Oct 18Apr 14Oct 18
2021Apr 22Nov 5Apr 21Nov 13
2020Apr 19Oct 16Apr 18Nov 2
2019Apr 13Oct 12Apr 1Oct 31
2018Apr 20Nov 10Apr 17Nov 10
2017Apr 9Oct 25Mar 16Oct 28
2016Apr 3Nov 13Apr 3Nov 19
2015Apr 5Nov 8Apr 5Nov 13
2014May 3Nov 1Apr 16Nov 2
2013May 6Oct 26Mar 28Nov 8
2012Mar 11no dataMar 11no data
2011May 4Oct 19Apr 6Oct 20
2010Apr 9Oct 30Mar 30Oct 30
2009Apr 15Oct 19Apr 12Nov 27
2008no dataOct 28no dataOct 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.