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Frost history / Buffalo 1SW Mesonet, OK

Buffalo 1SW Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00341240, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,834 ft, 36.831, -99.641. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 25
EarliestMar 10 (2012)Oct 7 (2012)
LatestMay 3 (2013)Nov 12 (2016)
Trend3.4 days later per decade2.2 days earlier per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.

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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202010: Apr 82011: Apr 162012: Mar 102013: May 32014: Apr 152015: Apr 102016: Apr 22017: Apr 62018: Apr 192019: Apr 142020: Apr 152021: Apr 212022: Apr 262023: Apr 82024: Mar 282025: Apr 15

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202009: Oct 102010: Nov 52011: Oct 272012: Oct 72013: Oct 252014: Nov 12015: Nov 82016: Nov 122017: Oct 272018: Oct 152019: Oct 112020: Oct 232021: Oct 302022: Oct 182023: Oct 162024: Oct 162025: Oct 29

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 15Oct 29Apr 7Oct 30
2024Mar 28Oct 16Mar 27Oct 16
2023Apr 8Oct 16Apr 7Oct 29
2022Apr 26Oct 18Apr 14Oct 19
2021Apr 21Oct 30Apr 1Nov 13
2020Apr 15Oct 23Apr 15Oct 23
2019Apr 14Oct 11Apr 14Oct 11
2018Apr 19Oct 15Apr 16Nov 9
2017Apr 6Oct 27Mar 15Oct 27
2016Apr 2Nov 12Apr 2Nov 12
2015Apr 10Nov 8Apr 4Nov 13
2014Apr 15Nov 1Apr 15Nov 11
2013May 3Oct 25Apr 24Oct 27
2012Mar 10Oct 7Mar 4Oct 7
2011Apr 16Oct 27Mar 24Nov 3
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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.