Lexington 3E, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00234904, 1953 to 2008, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 825 ft, 39.183, -93.855. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 10	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 21 (1981)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 7 (1992)	Nov 18 (1958)
Trend	0.6 days later per decade	2.9 days earlier per decade
Years with data	50	50

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 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.

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

"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.