Last Frost Day

Frost history / N Las Vegas, NV

N Las Vegas, NV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00265705, 1951 to 2012, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,898 ft, 36.235, -115.116. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 11Nov 4
EarliestJan 8 (1998)Oct 7 (1955)
LatestMay 3 (1955)Dec 20 (2012)
Trend18.1 days earlier per decade9.0 days later per decade
Years with data1819

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Dec 31Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 151960197019801990200020101952: Mar 281953: May 11954: Apr 21955: May 31956: Apr 71957: Apr 191958: Apr 51959: Apr 111960: Apr 251992: Jan 231993: Jan 231994: Feb 211995: Jan 181997: Jan 181998: Jan 81999: Feb 132006: Jan 212012: Jan 14

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 261960197019801990200020101951: Oct 141952: Oct 261953: Oct 231954: Oct 251955: Oct 71956: Oct 251957: Nov 41958: Nov 21959: Oct 291960: Oct 311990: Nov 281992: Nov 261993: Nov 201994: Nov 151996: Dec 11997: Dec 121998: Dec 62004: Nov 302012: Dec 20

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
2012Jan 14Dec 20noneDec 20
2006Jan 21no datanoneno data
2004no dataNov 30no dataDec 1
1999Feb 13no dataFeb 12no data
1998Jan 8Dec 6noneDec 22
1997Jan 18Dec 12noneDec 13
1996no dataDec 1no dataDec 19
1995Jan 18no datanoneno data
1994Feb 21Nov 15Jan 9Nov 20
1993Jan 23Nov 20Jan 5Nov 25
1992Jan 23Nov 26noneNov 26
1990no dataNov 28no dataNov 28
1960Apr 25Oct 31Mar 17Oct 31
1959Apr 11Oct 29Mar 21Nov 6
1958Apr 5Nov 2Mar 10Nov 18
1957Apr 19Nov 4Mar 25Nov 17
1956Apr 7Oct 25Apr 4Oct 25
1955May 3Oct 7Apr 3Nov 3
1954Apr 2Oct 25Mar 18Nov 7
1953May 1Oct 23Apr 12Oct 24
1952Mar 28Oct 26Mar 17Nov 25
1951no dataOct 14no dataOct 22

"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.