Last Frost Day

Frost history / Blackwell 4SSE Mesonet, OK

Blackwell 4SSE Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00340810, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 997 ft, 36.754, -97.254. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 11Oct 19
EarliestMar 10 (2012)Oct 4 (2014)
LatestMay 2 (2014)Nov 12 (2015)
Trend6.7 days later per decade0.7 days later per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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: Apr 52012: Mar 102013: Apr 252014: May 22015: Apr 102016: Apr 22017: Mar 152018: Apr 192019: Mar 312020: Apr 182021: Apr 212022: Apr 142023: Apr 232024: Apr 122025: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202009: Oct 242010: Oct 292011: Oct 192012: Oct 72013: Oct 182014: Oct 42015: Nov 122016: Nov 102017: Oct 272018: Oct 162019: Oct 122020: Oct 262021: Oct 302022: Oct 182023: Oct 172024: 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 30Apr 7Nov 9
2024Apr 12Oct 16Mar 28Oct 16
2023Apr 23Oct 17Mar 29Oct 30
2022Apr 14Oct 18Apr 14Oct 19
2021Apr 21Oct 30Apr 21Nov 13
2020Apr 18Oct 26Mar 21Oct 26
2019Mar 31Oct 12Mar 16Oct 29
2018Apr 19Oct 16Apr 16Nov 9
2017Mar 15Oct 27Mar 15Oct 28
2016Apr 2Nov 10Apr 2Nov 19
2015Apr 10Nov 12Apr 4Nov 13
2014May 2Oct 4Apr 15Nov 1
2013Apr 25Oct 18Apr 24Nov 12
2012Mar 10Oct 7Mar 4Oct 8
2011Apr 5Oct 19Apr 5Oct 20
2010Apr 8Oct 29Mar 22Nov 18
2009no dataOct 24no dataNov 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.