Fulton, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00233079, 1951 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 770 ft, 38.848, -91.942. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 13	Oct 22
Earliest	Mar 27 (1999)	Sep 23 (1995)
Latest	May 11 (1966)	Nov 8 (2015)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	59	62

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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

"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.