Last Frost Day

Frost history / Fort Cobb 4NNW Mesonet, OK

Fort Cobb 4NNW Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00343277, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,384 ft, 35.149, -98.466. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 6Nov 1
EarliestMar 4 (2012)Oct 8 (2012)
LatestMay 3 (2013)Nov 22 (2024)
Trend3.6 days later per decade7.7 days later per decade
Years with data1614

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202010: Apr 82011: Apr 52012: Mar 42013: May 32014: Apr 152015: Mar 72016: Apr 22017: Mar 152018: Apr 162019: Mar 312020: Apr 152021: Apr 212022: Apr 142023: Mar 292024: Mar 282025: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202009: Oct 272010: Nov 52011: Nov 32012: Oct 82013: Oct 192015: Nov 132016: Nov 182017: Oct 272018: Nov 92020: Oct 242021: Nov 122023: Oct 302024: Nov 222025: 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 30Feb 24Nov 10
2024Mar 28Nov 22Mar 28Nov 26
2023Mar 29Oct 30Mar 19Oct 30
2022Apr 14no dataMar 12no data
2021Apr 21Nov 12Mar 2Nov 22
2020Apr 15Oct 24Apr 15Oct 26
2019Mar 31no dataMar 16no data
2018Apr 16Nov 9Apr 15Nov 9
2017Mar 15Oct 27Mar 14Oct 28
2016Apr 2Nov 18Mar 20Nov 19
2015Mar 7Nov 13Mar 7Nov 21
2014Apr 15no dataApr 15no data
2013May 3Oct 19Apr 24Nov 12
2012Mar 4Oct 8Mar 4Oct 28
2011Apr 5Nov 3Mar 15Nov 4
2010Apr 8Nov 5Mar 22Nov 25
2009no dataOct 27no dataNov 18

"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.