Frost history / Hawthorne, NV
Hawthorne, NV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00263512, 1955 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,400 ft, 38.516, -118.621. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 22 | Oct 23 |
| Earliest | Apr 3 (2014) | Oct 2 (2019) |
| Latest | May 20 (2019) | Nov 22 (2025) |
| Trend | 1.7 days earlier per decade | 1.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 25 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 19 | Nov 22 | Apr 3 | Dec 1 |
| 2024 | Apr 9 | Oct 30 | Apr 7 | Nov 6 |
| 2023 | Apr 20 | Oct 27 | Apr 19 | Oct 29 |
| 2022 | May 12 | Oct 24 | May 10 | Oct 24 |
| 2021 | Apr 28 | Oct 12 | Mar 31 | Nov 22 |
| 2020 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 | Apr 3 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | May 20 | Oct 2 | Mar 22 | Oct 11 |
| 2018 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Oct 15 |
| 2015 | Apr 16 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 2014 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 | Mar 19 | Nov 16 |
| 2013 | Apr 18 | Oct 30 | Apr 18 | Nov 5 |
| 2012 | Apr 14 | Oct 22 | Apr 6 | Nov 10 |
| 2011 | Apr 30 | Oct 25 | Apr 29 | Nov 4 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 26 | Apr 6 | Oct 26 |
| 2009 | Apr 27 | Oct 3 | Apr 15 | Oct 27 |
| 2008 | May 2 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 2007 | Apr 20 | Oct 7 | Apr 19 | Oct 20 |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 2005 | Apr 20 | Oct 29 | Apr 20 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | Apr 19 | Oct 21 | Mar 1 | Nov 1 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 1996 | Apr 22 | Oct 17 | Apr 19 | Oct 21 |
| 1995 | Apr 24 | Oct 23 | Apr 10 | Nov 6 |
| 1994 | Apr 11 | Oct 16 | Mar 23 | Nov 3 |
| 1964 | May 8 | Oct 19 | May 3 | Nov 3 |
| 1963 | Apr 24 | Oct 31 | Apr 22 | Nov 17 |
| 1962 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 | Mar 31 | Nov 17 |
| 1961 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 22 |
| 1955 | May 15 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
"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.