Lakeside, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00234694, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 590 ft, 38.204, -92.623. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 10	Oct 28
Earliest	Mar 15 (2017)	Oct 1 (1958)
Latest	May 5 (1976)	Dec 3 (2009)
Trend	2.6 days earlier per decade	2.6 days later per decade
Years with data	72	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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
2025	Apr 9	Nov 9	Mar 9	Nov 10
2024	Mar 28	Nov 23	Feb 28	Nov 26
2023	Mar 29	Oct 30	Mar 19	Nov 1
2022	Apr 9	Oct 18	Apr 1	Nov 13
2021	Apr 22	Nov 19	Mar 6	Nov 19
2020	Apr 18	Nov 2	Feb 28	Nov 30
2019	Apr 2	Nov 1	Mar 16	Nov 8
2018	Apr 9	Nov 9	Apr 7	Nov 9
2017	Mar 15	Oct 29	Mar 15	Nov 10
2016	Mar 21	Nov 20	Mar 2	Dec 7
2015	Apr 4	Nov 20	Mar 6	Nov 21
2014	Apr 15	Nov 1	Mar 27	Nov 12
2013	Apr 4	Nov 12	Mar 27	Nov 12
2011	Mar 28	Nov 30	Mar 11	Nov 30
2009	Apr 15	Dec 3	Apr 7	Dec 4
2008	Apr 29	Oct 28	Apr 5	Nov 18
2007	Apr 9	no data	Apr 9	no data
2006	Apr 9	Oct 13	Mar 26	Oct 24
2005	Mar 28	Nov 16	Mar 20	Nov 16
2004	Apr 3	Nov 13	Mar 13	Dec 1
2003	Apr 11	Nov 6	Apr 10	Nov 6
2002	Apr 6	Oct 14	Apr 6	Nov 1
2001	Mar 27	Oct 17	Mar 27	Oct 17
2000	Mar 21	Oct 9	Mar 12	Nov 18
1999	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 26	Nov 30
1998	Mar 22	Nov 6	Mar 13	Dec 9
1997	Apr 17	Oct 28	Apr 9	Nov 4
1996	Apr 10	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 3
1995	Apr 5	Nov 3	Mar 9	Nov 4
1994	Apr 7	Oct 26	Apr 7	Nov 29
1993	Mar 18	Oct 30	Mar 18	Oct 31
1992	Apr 3	Oct 17	Apr 3	Nov 15
1991	Mar 31	Oct 20	Mar 30	Nov 1
1990	Apr 13	Oct 19	Apr 8	Dec 4
1989	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 3
1988	Apr 25	no data	Mar 17	no data
1987	Apr 6	Oct 28	Apr 5	Nov 10
1986	Apr 22	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 13
1985	Apr 10	Nov 4	Apr 10	Nov 20
1984	Apr 2	Nov 2	Apr 1	Nov 2
1983	Apr 20	Nov 5	Mar 26	Nov 29
1982	Apr 22	Oct 21	Apr 12	Oct 23
1981	Apr 6	Oct 23	Mar 24	Oct 24
1980	Apr 15	Oct 12	Mar 22	Oct 26
1979	Apr 7	Oct 10	Apr 3	Nov 4
1978	May 3	Oct 28	Mar 28	Nov 8
1977	Mar 25	Nov 11	Mar 23	Nov 12
1976	May 5	Oct 17	Mar 17	Oct 18
1975	Apr 13	Oct 26	Apr 5	Oct 26
1974	Apr 10	Nov 14	Apr 10	Nov 25
1973	Apr 14	Nov 5	Apr 12	Nov 5
1972	Apr 10	Oct 19	Apr 5	Oct 19
1971	Apr 14	Nov 7	Apr 7	Nov 7
1970	Apr 8	Oct 17	Apr 6	Nov 15
1969	Mar 31	Oct 28	Mar 31	Oct 28
1968	Apr 15	Oct 25	Apr 1	Nov 9
1967	May 3	Oct 28	Mar 19	Oct 28
1966	Apr 14	Oct 16	Apr 10	Oct 20
1965	Apr 1	Oct 24	Apr 1	Nov 29
1964	Apr 10	Oct 9	Apr 9	Oct 10
1963	Apr 24	Oct 29	Mar 23	Nov 2
1962	Apr 17	Oct 24	Apr 16	Nov 5
1961	May 2	Oct 26	Apr 6	Nov 4
1960	May 1	Oct 20	Apr 10	Oct 20
1959	Apr 23	Oct 28	Apr 14	Nov 6
1958	Apr 12	Oct 1	Apr 8	Nov 7
1957	Apr 15	Oct 19	Apr 14	Oct 26
1956	Apr 25	Oct 28	Apr 23	Nov 9
1955	Apr 8	Oct 31	Mar 30	Nov 4
1954	May 4	Oct 30	Apr 1	Nov 2
1953	Apr 27	Oct 29	Apr 19	Nov 6
1952	Apr 16	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Nov 1	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.