Last Frost Day

Frost history / Gallatin 1W, MO

Gallatin 1W, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00233102, 1964 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 921 ft, 39.908, -93.970. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 17Oct 19
EarliestMar 23 (2017)Sep 24 (1989)
LatestMay 6 (1992)Nov 2 (2021)
Trend0.7 days earlier per decade2.9 days later per decade
Years with data2724

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

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 151970198019902000201020201964: Apr 91965: Apr 281981: Apr 151990: Apr 171991: Apr 21992: May 61995: Apr 131996: Apr 301997: May 22001: Apr 182003: Apr 112005: Apr 242006: Apr 82007: Apr 132008: Apr 292009: Apr 82010: Mar 262012: Apr 112015: Apr 232016: Apr 132017: Mar 232018: Apr 192019: Apr 142020: Apr 192021: Apr 232022: Apr 202023: Apr 24

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 111970198019902000201020201964: Oct 91989: Sep 241990: Oct 191991: Oct 71994: Oct 251995: Oct 211996: Oct 231997: Oct 221999: Oct 182001: Oct 162005: Oct 72006: Oct 122008: Oct 272009: Oct 182010: Oct 292011: Oct 212012: Oct 72015: Oct 302016: Oct 142017: Oct 282018: Oct 152020: Oct 242021: Nov 22022: Oct 17

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
2023Apr 24no dataApr 7no data
2022Apr 20Oct 17Apr 19Oct 18
2021Apr 23Nov 2Apr 2Nov 19
2020Apr 19Oct 24Apr 16Oct 26
2019Apr 14no dataApr 14no data
2018Apr 19Oct 15Apr 19Oct 22
2017Mar 23Oct 28Mar 16Oct 28
2016Apr 13Oct 14Apr 10Nov 19
2015Apr 23Oct 30Mar 28Nov 21
2012Apr 11Oct 7Mar 6Oct 7
2011no dataOct 21no dataNov 4
2010Mar 26Oct 29Mar 20Nov 5
2009Apr 8Oct 18Apr 7Nov 21
2008Apr 29Oct 27Apr 14Oct 28
2007Apr 13no dataApr 9no data
2006Apr 8Oct 12Mar 27Oct 14
2005Apr 24Oct 7Mar 21Nov 10
2003Apr 11no dataApr 11no data
2001Apr 18Oct 16Mar 27Oct 26
1999no dataOct 18no dataOct 18
1997May 2Oct 22Apr 17Oct 27
1996Apr 30Oct 23Apr 8Nov 1
1995Apr 13Oct 21Apr 5Nov 3
1994no dataOct 25no dataOct 26
1992May 6no dataApr 4no data
1991Apr 2Oct 7Apr 2Oct 18
1990Apr 17Oct 19Apr 13Oct 25
1989no dataSep 24no dataOct 20
1981Apr 15no dataMar 20no data
1965Apr 28no dataMar 31no data
1964Apr 9Oct 9Apr 5Nov 19

"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.