Desert Nwr, NV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00262243, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,914 ft, 36.438, -115.360. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 31	Nov 9
Earliest	Feb 2 (2010)	Oct 10 (2017)
Latest	May 6 (1995)	Dec 14 (2008)
Trend	3.0 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	63	63

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.

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
2024	Mar 31	Oct 31	Feb 13	Nov 8
2023	Apr 6	Nov 10	Apr 6	Nov 27
2022	Apr 13	Oct 28	Apr 13	Nov 12
2021	Mar 11	Nov 25	Mar 11	Nov 26
2020	Mar 28	Oct 26	Feb 19	Nov 25
2019	Mar 18	Oct 29	Feb 25	Oct 29
2018	no data	Nov 10	no data	Nov 10
2017	Mar 7	Oct 10	Mar 7	Oct 10
2016	Mar 28	Nov 18	Feb 9	Nov 18
2015	Mar 5	Nov 12	Jan 26	Nov 28
2014	Apr 2	Nov 17	Feb 6	Nov 18
2013	Apr 19	Nov 6	Feb 28	Dec 4
2012	no data	Nov 10	no data	Nov 12
2011	Mar 9	Nov 3	Mar 9	Dec 6
2010	Feb 2	Nov 10	none	Nov 25
2009	Mar 12	Nov 16	none	Dec 4
2008	Feb 7	Dec 14	Jan 31	Dec 28
2007	Mar 1	Nov 26	Feb 4	Dec 16
2006	no data	Nov 30	no data	Nov 30
2005	Mar 31	Nov 21	Feb 3	Nov 28
2004	Feb 16	Nov 3	Feb 15	Nov 29
2003	Apr 6	Oct 14	Mar 3	Oct 15
2002	Mar 20	Nov 4	Mar 15	Nov 16
2001	Apr 8	Nov 26	Feb 16	Nov 26
2000	Mar 9	Nov 8	Jan 31	Nov 8
1999	Apr 10	Nov 23	Apr 9	Nov 23
1998	Apr 6	Nov 3	Mar 8	Nov 10
1997	Apr 6	Oct 27	Mar 7	Dec 3
1995	May 6	no data	Mar 26	no data
1994	Mar 8	no data	Feb 24	no data
1993	Feb 27	Nov 6	Feb 22	Nov 7
1992	Feb 26	Nov 4	Jan 31	Nov 21
1991	Mar 28	Oct 29	Mar 21	Oct 29
1990	Mar 16	Nov 4	Mar 13	Nov 20
1989	Mar 21	Oct 27	Mar 5	Nov 28
1988	Mar 29	Nov 1	Mar 15	Nov 16
1987	Mar 31	Nov 16	Mar 30	Nov 20
1986	Feb 23	Nov 9	Feb 12	Nov 27
1985	Mar 23	Nov 13	Mar 4	Nov 13
1984	Apr 27	no data	Apr 27	no data
1983	Apr 14	Nov 15	Feb 5	Nov 23
1982	Apr 21	Nov 4	Feb 12	Nov 13
1981	Apr 4	Nov 20	Feb 27	Nov 26
1980	no data	Oct 25	no data	Nov 15
1977	Apr 1	Nov 9	Mar 31	Nov 21
1976	Apr 16	Nov 27	Mar 26	Nov 27
1975	Apr 10	no data	Apr 2	no data
1974	Apr 14	Nov 24	Mar 5	Nov 24
1973	Mar 21	Nov 5	Mar 21	Nov 20
1972	Mar 31	Nov 1	Mar 28	Dec 3
1971	Apr 2	Oct 19	Mar 19	Oct 30
1970	Apr 24	Oct 28	Mar 22	Nov 16
1969	Apr 8	Nov 18	Mar 8	Nov 18
1966	Apr 21	Nov 9	Apr 21	Nov 12
1964	Apr 25	no data	Mar 25	no data
1963	Apr 22	Nov 17	Apr 18	Nov 17
1962	no data	Nov 16	no data	Dec 12
1961	Mar 10	Oct 23	Feb 28	Oct 29
1960	Apr 25	Nov 20	Mar 4	Nov 29
1959	Mar 15	Nov 19	Mar 5	Nov 27
1958	Apr 5	Nov 16	Mar 12	Nov 17
1957	Mar 27	Nov 6	Mar 24	Nov 18
1956	Apr 4	Oct 30	Mar 16	Oct 30
1955	Apr 3	Nov 16	Mar 22	Nov 16
1954	Mar 27	Oct 26	Mar 24	Nov 30
1953	Apr 12	Nov 7	Mar 15	Nov 21
1952	Mar 23	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 24
1951	Apr 1	Nov 2	Mar 19	Nov 16

"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.