Frost history / Goldfield, NV
Goldfield, NV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00263285, 1951 to 2004, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 5,690 ft, 37.708, -117.233. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 17 | Oct 11 |
| Earliest | Apr 19 (1987) | Sep 16 (1965) |
| Latest | Jun 25 (1975) | Nov 14 (1987) |
| Trend | 2.2 days earlier per decade | 2.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 33 | 40 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 and the median first fall date is Oct 21.
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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Apr 30 | Sep 21 | Apr 18 | Oct 28 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 2000 | May 13 | no data | May 12 | no data |
| 1999 | May 15 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1998 | no data | Oct 16 | no data | Oct 17 |
| 1997 | Apr 25 | Oct 8 | Apr 12 | Oct 14 |
| 1996 | May 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 21 | Oct 17 |
| 1995 | Jun 7 | Oct 5 | Apr 22 | Nov 2 |
| 1994 | Apr 29 | Oct 15 | Apr 26 | Oct 15 |
| 1993 | Jun 6 | Oct 19 | Apr 13 | Nov 2 |
| 1992 | Apr 19 | no data | Mar 18 | no data |
| 1991 | May 19 | Oct 24 | May 19 | Oct 27 |
| 1990 | May 24 | Oct 8 | Mar 29 | Oct 20 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 25 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 1988 | May 8 | Nov 9 | May 7 | Nov 14 |
| 1987 | Apr 19 | Nov 14 | Apr 19 | Nov 15 |
| 1986 | May 22 | Sep 20 | Apr 19 | Oct 12 |
| 1985 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Oct 9 |
| 1982 | May 19 | Sep 30 | May 19 | Oct 27 |
| 1981 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 12 |
| 1980 | May 27 | Oct 15 | May 25 | Oct 15 |
| 1979 | May 9 | Oct 21 | May 8 | Oct 21 |
| 1978 | May 24 | Sep 17 | May 23 | Sep 18 |
| 1977 | May 17 | Oct 29 | May 17 | Nov 6 |
| 1976 | Apr 27 | Oct 23 | Apr 26 | Oct 26 |
| 1975 | Jun 25 | Oct 8 | May 21 | Oct 8 |
| 1974 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1972 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 1971 | May 31 | Sep 26 | Apr 25 | Sep 30 |
| 1970 | May 10 | Sep 24 | Apr 28 | Oct 25 |
| 1969 | Apr 26 | Oct 3 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 |
| 1968 | Apr 22 | Sep 20 | Apr 22 | Nov 3 |
| 1967 | May 31 | Oct 14 | May 12 | Oct 29 |
| 1966 | Apr 26 | Oct 12 | Apr 26 | Oct 13 |
| 1965 | no data | Sep 16 | no data | Sep 16 |
| 1963 | May 12 | Nov 1 | Apr 23 | Nov 7 |
| 1962 | May 21 | Oct 15 | Apr 29 | Nov 16 |
| 1961 | May 12 | Oct 8 | May 12 | Oct 22 |
| 1960 | May 25 | Oct 9 | May 24 | Oct 9 |
| 1959 | May 23 | Sep 29 | Mar 25 | Sep 29 |
| 1953 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 3 |
| 1952 | Jun 13 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 1951 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 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.