Frost history / Kingfisher 1W Mesonet, OK
Kingfisher 1W Mesonet, OK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00344860, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,059 ft, 35.854, -97.954. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 12 | Oct 29 |
| Earliest | Mar 10 (2012) | Oct 8 (2012) |
| Latest | May 4 (2013) | Nov 19 (2016) |
| Trend | 4.6 days later per decade | 1.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.
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)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 | Mar 22 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Mar 28 | Oct 16 | Mar 28 | Nov 26 |
| 2023 | Apr 23 | Oct 30 | Apr 23 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 26 | Oct 18 | Apr 14 | Oct 19 |
| 2021 | Apr 21 | Nov 12 | Mar 2 | Nov 18 |
| 2020 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 | Apr 15 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 12 | Oct 11 | Mar 31 | Oct 29 |
| 2018 | Apr 19 | Nov 9 | Apr 16 | Nov 9 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 27 | Mar 14 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Apr 2 | Nov 19 | Apr 2 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Apr 4 | Nov 8 | Apr 4 | Nov 21 |
| 2014 | May 2 | Oct 31 | Apr 15 | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | May 4 | Oct 19 | Apr 24 | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Mar 10 | Oct 8 | Mar 9 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 2010 | Apr 8 | Oct 29 | Mar 22 | Nov 5 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Nov 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.