Frost history / Valley Of Fire Sp, NV
Valley Of Fire Sp, NV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00268588, 1973 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,000 ft, 36.430, -114.514. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 3 | Dec 12 |
| Earliest | Jan 1 (1980) | Nov 13 (1985) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (1973) | Dec 28 (2014) |
| Trend | 4.9 days earlier per decade | 2.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 33, 3 with no freeze | 32, 4 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 1 and the median first fall date is Dec 15.
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 | Jan 22 | no data | none | no data |
| 2024 | Jan 13 | none | Jan 10 | none |
| 2023 | Feb 1 | none | none | none |
| 2018 | Feb 26 | no data | none | no data |
| 2017 | Jan 27 | Dec 22 | none | none |
| 2016 | Feb 4 | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 2015 | Jan 4 | Nov 29 | none | Dec 28 |
| 2014 | none | Dec 28 | none | Dec 29 |
| 2013 | no data | Dec 5 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 2012 | none | Dec 20 | none | none |
| 2011 | Feb 3 | Dec 6 | Feb 3 | Dec 6 |
| 2010 | Jan 3 | Nov 25 | none | Dec 31 |
| 2009 | Jan 28 | Dec 4 | Jan 6 | none |
| 2008 | Feb 6 | Dec 14 | Jan 31 | Dec 14 |
| 2007 | no data | Dec 15 | no data | none |
| 2006 | Mar 11 | no data | none | no data |
| 2002 | Feb 1 | Dec 19 | Feb 1 | none |
| 2001 | Feb 9 | Dec 13 | none | Dec 16 |
| 2000 | Jan 10 | Dec 21 | none | none |
| 1999 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | none |
| 1997 | no data | Dec 25 | no data | none |
| 1996 | Feb 27 | no data | Feb 27 | no data |
| 1990 | Feb 19 | no data | Feb 19 | no data |
| 1987 | Feb 25 | Dec 15 | Jan 17 | Dec 15 |
| 1986 | Feb 11 | Dec 13 | Feb 10 | none |
| 1985 | Mar 4 | Nov 13 | Feb 6 | Nov 20 |
| 1984 | Jan 20 | Dec 15 | Jan 20 | none |
| 1983 | Jan 21 | Dec 6 | none | none |
| 1982 | Feb 7 | Dec 2 | Feb 7 | none |
| 1981 | Jan 22 | none | none | none |
| 1980 | Jan 1 | none | none | none |
| 1979 | Feb 6 | Dec 12 | Feb 5 | none |
| 1978 | none | Dec 6 | none | Dec 7 |
| 1977 | Jan 13 | Dec 17 | Jan 10 | none |
| 1976 | Mar 4 | Nov 28 | Jan 3 | none |
| 1975 | Mar 28 | Nov 30 | Feb 19 | Dec 15 |
| 1973 | Apr 9 | Nov 27 | Jan 17 | Dec 21 |
"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.