Last Frost Day

Frost history / Vienna 2 Wnw, MO

Vienna 2 Wnw, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00238620, 1962 to 2001, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 770 ft, 38.202, -91.981. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 25Oct 7
EarliestApr 6 (1981)Sep 22 (1995)
LatestMay 16 (1997)Nov 4 (1971)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)3.9 days earlier per decade
Years with data3837

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 18.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3019701980199020001962: Apr 161963: May 11964: Apr 151965: Apr 291968: May 51969: Apr 291970: Apr 71971: May 131972: Apr 251973: Apr 281974: Apr 171975: Apr 201976: May 91977: Apr 261978: May 21979: May 51980: May 91981: Apr 61982: Apr 231983: Apr 251984: Apr 241985: Apr 101986: Apr 231987: Apr 121988: Apr 291989: May 121990: Apr 121991: Apr 241992: May 71993: Apr 221994: May 21995: May 21996: Apr 161997: May 161998: Apr 191999: Apr 182000: Apr 262001: Apr 24

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1119701980199020001962: Oct 241963: Nov 21964: Oct 61968: Oct 41969: Oct 141970: Oct 101971: Nov 41972: Oct 191973: Oct 301974: Oct 21975: Oct 21976: Oct 101977: Oct 121978: Oct 71979: Oct 51980: Oct 51981: Oct 21982: Oct 171983: Sep 231984: Sep 301985: Sep 271986: Oct 151987: Oct 31988: Oct 51989: Sep 241990: Oct 111991: Oct 71992: Sep 291993: Oct 101994: Oct 101995: Sep 221996: Oct 191997: Oct 171998: Oct 221999: Oct 52000: Sep 262001: Sep 25

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
2001Apr 24Sep 25Apr 18Oct 17
2000Apr 26Sep 26Apr 13Oct 7
1999Apr 18Oct 5Mar 27Oct 18
1998Apr 19Oct 22Mar 24Oct 23
1997May 16Oct 17Apr 18Oct 18
1996Apr 16Oct 19Apr 10Oct 19
1995May 2Sep 22Apr 5Sep 23
1994May 2Oct 10Apr 8Oct 26
1993Apr 22Oct 10Apr 6Oct 28
1992May 7Sep 29Apr 3Oct 17
1991Apr 24Oct 7Mar 31Oct 20
1990Apr 12Oct 11Apr 12Oct 22
1989May 12Sep 24Apr 12Sep 24
1988Apr 29Oct 5Apr 19Oct 12
1987Apr 12Oct 3Apr 5Oct 3
1986Apr 23Oct 15Apr 22Nov 10
1985Apr 10Sep 27Apr 9Oct 1
1984Apr 24Sep 30Apr 1Sep 30
1983Apr 25Sep 23Apr 20Nov 5
1982Apr 23Oct 17Apr 22Oct 21
1981Apr 6Oct 2Apr 6Oct 23
1980May 9Oct 5Mar 26Oct 5
1979May 5Oct 5Apr 6Oct 5
1978May 2Oct 7May 2Oct 8
1977Apr 26Oct 12Mar 23Oct 13
1976May 9Oct 10May 3Oct 17
1975Apr 20Oct 2Apr 12Oct 19
1974Apr 17Oct 2Apr 9Nov 13
1973Apr 28Oct 30Apr 13Nov 5
1972Apr 25Oct 19Apr 8Oct 19
1971May 13Nov 4Apr 14Nov 4
1970Apr 7Oct 10Apr 7Oct 16
1969Apr 29Oct 14Mar 31Oct 17
1968May 5Oct 4Apr 6Oct 25
1965Apr 29no dataMar 31no data
1964Apr 15Oct 6Apr 9Oct 6
1963May 1Nov 2Mar 22Nov 2
1962Apr 16Oct 24Apr 16Oct 24

"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.