Elsberry 1 S, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00232591, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 475 ft, 39.156, -90.783. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 18	Oct 14
Earliest	Mar 19 (2017)	Sep 22 (1983)
Latest	May 21 (2002)	Nov 8 (1956)
Trend	0.9 days earlier per decade	0.5 days later per decade
Years with data	69	68

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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
2024	Apr 21	Oct 16	Mar 28	Nov 26
2023	no data	Oct 30	no data	Oct 30
2021	Apr 22	no data	Apr 21	no data
2020	Apr 18	Oct 5	Apr 16	Nov 2
2018	Apr 20	Oct 16	Apr 20	Oct 16
2017	Mar 19	Oct 29	Mar 16	Oct 29
2016	Apr 13	no data	Apr 12	no data
2015	Apr 23	Oct 17	Apr 4	Nov 8
2014	Apr 15	Oct 31	Apr 15	Nov 1
2013	Apr 21	Oct 22	Apr 21	Oct 24
2012	Apr 12	Oct 8	Mar 5	Nov 4
2011	May 4	Oct 28	Mar 28	Nov 11
2010	Mar 29	no data	Mar 26	no data
2009	Apr 15	Oct 11	Apr 8	Nov 12
2008	Apr 29	Oct 28	Mar 24	Oct 28
2007	Apr 15	Oct 29	Apr 13	Nov 1
2006	Apr 8	Oct 12	Mar 25	Oct 24
2005	May 4	Oct 26	Mar 20	Nov 16
2004	Apr 14	Oct 5	Mar 22	Nov 13
2003	Apr 11	Oct 2	Apr 10	Nov 7
2002	May 21	Oct 14	Apr 5	Nov 2
2001	Apr 18	Oct 17	Apr 18	Oct 27
2000	Apr 22	Oct 7	Mar 29	Oct 9
1999	Mar 27	Oct 18	Mar 27	Oct 24
1998	Apr 5	Oct 23	Mar 24	Nov 8
1997	Apr 18	Oct 18	Apr 17	Oct 22
1996	Apr 27	Oct 19	Apr 10	Nov 2
1995	Apr 5	Sep 23	Apr 5	Nov 3
1994	Apr 7	Oct 26	Apr 7	Oct 26
1993	Apr 22	Oct 10	Apr 6	Oct 31
1992	May 6	Oct 17	Apr 3	Oct 17
1991	Apr 22	Oct 7	Mar 30	Oct 20
1990	Apr 18	Oct 11	Apr 18	Oct 26
1989	May 12	Sep 24	Apr 13	Nov 1
1988	Apr 30	Oct 5	Apr 19	Oct 26
1987	Apr 11	Oct 3	Apr 11	Oct 8
1986	Apr 23	Oct 14	Apr 22	Nov 10
1985	Apr 9	Oct 2	Apr 9	Nov 5
1984	Apr 18	Sep 30	Apr 1	Nov 2
1983	Apr 20	Sep 22	Apr 20	Oct 14
1982	Apr 23	Oct 20	Apr 21	Oct 21
1981	no data	Oct 3	no data	Oct 23
1980	May 9	Oct 5	Apr 16	Oct 14
1979	Apr 8	Oct 5	Apr 7	Oct 5
1978	May 2	Oct 8	Mar 27	Oct 24
1977	Apr 6	Oct 13	Mar 22	Oct 13
1976	May 8	Oct 14	Apr 12	Oct 17
1975	Apr 13	Oct 2	Apr 5	Oct 26
1974	Apr 24	Oct 2	Apr 9	Oct 2
1973	Apr 13	Nov 3	Apr 13	Nov 5
1972	Apr 10	Oct 15	Apr 9	Oct 19
1971	May 4	Nov 4	Apr 7	Nov 4
1970	no data	Oct 16	no data	Nov 15
1969	Apr 29	Oct 14	Apr 1	Oct 28
1968	Apr 25	Oct 25	Apr 6	Oct 25
1967	May 3	Oct 11	Apr 24	Nov 4
1966	Apr 16	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 16
1965	Mar 31	Oct 12	Mar 31	Oct 26
1964	Apr 9	Oct 6	Apr 9	Oct 10
1963	May 1	Oct 30	Apr 24	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 24
1961	Apr 16	Oct 26	Apr 2	Nov 4
1960	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 10	Oct 20
1959	May 16	Oct 18	Apr 22	Nov 6
1958	May 7	Oct 2	Mar 28	Oct 30
1957	Apr 14	Sep 29	Apr 13	Oct 27
1956	Apr 24	Nov 8	Apr 23	Nov 9
1955	Apr 9	Oct 19	Mar 29	Oct 30
1954	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 3	Oct 30
1953	Apr 20	no data	Apr 19	no data
1952	Apr 17	Oct 3	Apr 16	Oct 3
1951	Apr 23	Oct 8	Apr 23	Nov 2

"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.