New Madrid, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00236045, 1964 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 302 ft, 36.587, -89.532. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 30	Nov 4
Earliest	Mar 13 (1998)	Oct 5 (1980)
Latest	Apr 19 (1983)	Nov 25 (2004)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	41	34

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 13.

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
2010	Mar 17	no data	Mar 8	no data
2009	Apr 7	Oct 19	Mar 4	Dec 4
2007	Apr 9	no data	Apr 8	no data
2006	Mar 27	no data	Mar 26	no data
2005	Mar 17	Nov 16	Mar 15	Nov 16
2004	Mar 22	Nov 25	Mar 11	Dec 14
2003	Mar 30	Nov 14	Mar 11	Nov 29
2002	Apr 5	no data	Mar 27	no data
2001	Mar 28	no data	Mar 27	no data
2000	Mar 13	Oct 8	Mar 12	Nov 15
1999	Mar 27	no data	Mar 16	no data
1998	Mar 13	Nov 7	Mar 13	Dec 9
1997	Apr 10	no data	Mar 16	no data
1995	Apr 1	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Nov 23	Mar 31	Dec 11
1993	Mar 19	Oct 30	Mar 19	Nov 1
1992	Apr 3	Nov 7	Mar 14	Nov 7
1991	Mar 31	Nov 2	Mar 10	Nov 2
1990	Apr 18	Oct 26	Apr 13	Dec 5
1989	Apr 12	Oct 20	Apr 11	Nov 3
1988	Mar 30	Oct 5	Mar 20	Oct 5
1987	Apr 5	Oct 12	Apr 4	Nov 11
1986	Mar 23	Nov 12	Mar 22	Nov 13
1985	Apr 9	Nov 5	Feb 28	Nov 21
1984	Apr 1	Nov 3	Mar 10	Nov 17
1983	Apr 19	Nov 6	Apr 15	Nov 12
1982	no data	Oct 22	no data	Oct 22
1981	Mar 25	Oct 20	Mar 21	Oct 25
1980	Apr 5	Oct 5	Mar 15	Oct 30
1979	Apr 7	Oct 14	Mar 25	Nov 11
1978	Mar 26	Nov 8	Mar 18	Dec 4
1977	Mar 22	Nov 11	Feb 28	Nov 12
1974	Mar 25	no data	Mar 24	no data
1973	no data	Nov 10	no data	Nov 10
1972	Apr 9	Oct 21	Mar 6	Nov 23
1971	Apr 8	Nov 7	Apr 7	Nov 7
1970	Mar 16	Nov 4	Mar 16	Nov 16
1969	Apr 1	Oct 28	Mar 30	Nov 14
1968	Mar 25	Nov 10	Mar 24	Nov 13
1967	Mar 19	Nov 4	Mar 19	Nov 28
1966	Mar 28	Nov 2	Mar 25	Nov 3
1965	Mar 27	no data	Mar 26	no data
1964	Mar 30	Nov 20	Mar 30	Nov 21

"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.