Lockwood, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00235027, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,077 ft, 37.391, -93.949. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 12	Oct 24
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 4 (2013)	Nov 13 (2004)
Trend	1.2 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	74	73

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.

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 2	Apr 9	Nov 2
2024	Mar 28	Oct 16	Mar 28	Oct 17
2023	Apr 24	Oct 30	Mar 30	Oct 30
2022	Apr 19	Oct 18	Apr 2	Oct 18
2021	Apr 23	Nov 4	Apr 23	Nov 13
2020	Apr 19	Oct 16	Apr 18	Oct 30
2019	Apr 14	Oct 12	Apr 2	Oct 31
2018	Apr 21	Oct 16	Apr 16	Nov 10
2017	Apr 8	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 3	Nov 10	Mar 26	Nov 19
2015	Apr 5	Oct 30	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 1
2013	May 4	Oct 23	Mar 28	Oct 25
2012	Mar 10	Oct 7	Mar 10	Oct 28
2011	Apr 6	Oct 20	Mar 11	Nov 17
2010	Mar 29	Oct 29	Mar 5	Oct 29
2009	Apr 12	Oct 10	Apr 12	Nov 30
2008	Apr 15	Oct 27	Apr 15	Oct 28
2007	Apr 16	Nov 1	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Apr 10	Oct 14	Mar 26	Oct 25
2005	Mar 31	Oct 25	Mar 18	Oct 25
2004	Apr 14	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 25
2003	Apr 11	Nov 7	Apr 11	Nov 7
2002	Apr 5	Oct 14	Apr 5	Nov 12
2001	Apr 19	Oct 26	Apr 2	Oct 27
2000	Apr 9	Oct 8	Mar 12	Oct 8
1999	Mar 26	Oct 23	Mar 26	Oct 24
1998	Mar 22	Nov 11	Mar 21	Dec 8
1997	Apr 15	Oct 28	Apr 14	Nov 11
1996	Apr 8	Oct 31	Apr 8	Nov 2
1995	Apr 5	Sep 22	Mar 30	Sep 25
1994	Apr 8	Oct 26	Apr 8	Nov 23
1993	Apr 2	Oct 10	Mar 19	Oct 30
1992	Apr 3	Nov 5	Apr 2	Nov 27
1991	Mar 31	Oct 30	Mar 31	Nov 2
1990	Apr 13	Oct 22	Apr 12	Oct 22
1989	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 12	Oct 20
1988	Apr 20	Oct 28	Mar 20	Nov 21
1987	Apr 6	Oct 12	Apr 5	Oct 21
1986	Apr 22	Oct 16	Mar 21	Nov 11
1985	Apr 9	Oct 1	Apr 9	Nov 20
1984	Mar 30	Sep 30	Mar 22	Nov 12
1983	Apr 19	Nov 11	Apr 15	Nov 16
1982	Apr 21	Oct 21	Apr 9	Oct 22
1981	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 20	Oct 23
1980	Apr 14	Oct 26	Mar 14	Oct 29
1979	Apr 9	Oct 23	Apr 6	Nov 7
1978	Apr 21	Oct 24	Mar 26	Nov 28
1977	Apr 5	Oct 16	Mar 31	Nov 12
1976	May 3	Oct 17	Mar 16	Oct 17
1975	Apr 12	Oct 26	Apr 4	Nov 13
1974	Apr 9	Nov 6	Mar 25	Nov 6
1973	Apr 11	Nov 5	Apr 11	Nov 6
1972	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	Apr 7	Oct 31	Apr 5	Nov 7
1970	Apr 5	Oct 10	Apr 5	Nov 5
1969	Mar 31	no data	Mar 31	no data
1968	Apr 24	Oct 25	Apr 5	Nov 8
1967	Apr 24	Oct 19	Mar 18	Nov 4
1966	Apr 21	Oct 16	Apr 21	Oct 16
1965	no data	Oct 12	no data	Nov 17
1964	Apr 9	Oct 9	Mar 31	Oct 20
1963	May 1	no data	Mar 22	no data
1962	Apr 16	Oct 24	Apr 16	Nov 5
1961	May 2	Oct 20	Mar 10	Nov 3
1960	May 1	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
1959	Apr 22	Oct 28	Apr 12	Nov 5
1958	Mar 31	Oct 27	Mar 21	Nov 26
1957	Apr 14	Oct 26	Apr 13	Oct 26
1956	Apr 24	Nov 8	Apr 23	Nov 9
1955	Mar 29	Oct 24	Mar 29	Nov 3
1954	May 4	Oct 30	Apr 1	Nov 1
1953	Apr 19	Nov 6	Apr 19	Nov 6
1952	Apr 15	Oct 7	Apr 6	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Nov 1	Apr 16	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.