Last Frost Day

Frost history / Arnett 8WSW Mesonet, OK

Arnett 8WSW Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00340338, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,359 ft, 36.072, -99.903. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 9Oct 19
EarliestMar 8 (2012)Oct 7 (2012)
LatestMay 3 (2013)Nov 13 (2015)
Trend5.1 days earlier per decade2.8 days earlier per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 29 and the median first fall date is Nov 5.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202010: Apr 82011: May 32012: Mar 82013: May 32014: Apr 152015: Apr 102016: Apr 22017: Apr 62018: Apr 162019: Apr 142020: Apr 172021: Apr 212022: Mar 312023: Apr 52024: Mar 282025: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202009: Oct 102010: Nov 52011: Oct 272012: Oct 72013: Oct 182014: Nov 12015: Nov 132016: Nov 122017: Oct 272018: Oct 142019: Oct 112020: Oct 232021: Oct 162022: Oct 192023: Oct 162024: Oct 162025: Oct 30

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
2025Apr 7Oct 30Mar 16Oct 30
2024Mar 28Oct 16Mar 26Nov 25
2023Apr 5Oct 16Mar 28Oct 29
2022Mar 31Oct 19Mar 19Nov 11
2021Apr 21Oct 16Apr 21Nov 13
2020Apr 17Oct 23Apr 15Oct 24
2019Apr 14Oct 11Mar 31Oct 11
2018Apr 16Oct 14Apr 15Nov 9
2017Apr 6Oct 27Mar 15Oct 28
2016Apr 2Nov 12Mar 20Nov 18
2015Apr 10Nov 13Apr 4Nov 21
2014Apr 15Nov 1Apr 15Nov 11
2013May 3Oct 18Apr 24Oct 27
2012Mar 8Oct 7Mar 4Oct 7
2011May 3Oct 27Mar 10Oct 28
2010Apr 8Nov 5Apr 3Nov 5
2009no dataOct 10no dataNov 17

"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.