Stead, NV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00267820, 1989 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 5,101 ft, 39.625, -119.884. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	May 18	Oct 7
Earliest	Apr 18 (2015)	Sep 21 (2004)
Latest	Jun 7 (2005)	Oct 30 (2015)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	0.8 days later per decade
Years with data	14	14

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.

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
2022	May 21	Oct 22	May 11	Oct 23
2021	no data	Sep 29	no data	Oct 12
2017	May 15	Sep 23	Apr 15	Sep 23
2016	May 23	Oct 3	Mar 29	Nov 17
2015	Apr 18	Oct 30	Apr 17	Nov 4
2014	May 12	Oct 27	Apr 23	Oct 27
2013	May 24	Sep 26	Apr 18	Sep 27
2012	Jun 6	Oct 18	Apr 27	Oct 25
2009	Apr 29	Sep 30	Apr 29	Oct 4
2006	May 28	no data	Apr 19	no data
2005	Jun 7	no data	Apr 21	no data
2004	May 12	Sep 21	Apr 23	Oct 27
2001	May 6	no data	Apr 22	no data
2000	no data	Oct 12	no data	Oct 22
1997	May 2	Oct 12	Apr 13	Oct 12
1996	no data	Oct 17	no data	Oct 17
1989	May 29	Oct 3	Apr 24	Oct 25

"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.