Last Frost Day

Frost history / Guthrie 4WSW Mesonet, OK

Guthrie 4WSW Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00343820, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,082 ft, 35.849, -97.480. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 8Nov 4
EarliestMar 9 (2012)Oct 19 (2022)
LatestMay 3 (2013)Nov 22 (2024)
Trend6.1 days later per decade1.3 days earlier per decade
Years with data1616

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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: Mar 302012: Mar 92013: May 32014: Apr 152015: Apr 42016: Apr 22017: Mar 152018: Apr 162019: Apr 122020: Apr 182021: Apr 212022: Apr 92023: Apr 232024: Mar 282025: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202009: Nov 182010: Nov 52011: Nov 42012: Oct 272014: Nov 12015: Nov 132016: Nov 192017: Oct 272018: Nov 92019: Oct 292020: Oct 262021: Nov 132022: Oct 192023: Oct 302024: Nov 222025: Nov 9

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 7Nov 9Feb 22Nov 10
2024Mar 28Nov 22Feb 28Nov 26
2023Apr 23Oct 30Mar 19Oct 31
2022Apr 9Oct 19Mar 12Oct 19
2021Apr 21Nov 13Feb 25Nov 22
2020Apr 18Oct 26Mar 6Oct 26
2019Apr 12Oct 29Mar 31Oct 29
2018Apr 16Nov 9Apr 15Nov 9
2017Mar 15Oct 27Mar 14Oct 28
2016Apr 2Nov 19Mar 20Nov 19
2015Apr 4Nov 13Mar 6Nov 21
2014Apr 15Nov 1Apr 15Nov 11
2013May 3no dataApr 11no data
2012Mar 9Oct 27Feb 25Oct 27
2011Mar 30Nov 4Mar 15Nov 4
2010Apr 8Nov 5Mar 22Nov 5
2009no dataNov 18no 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.