Last Frost Day

Frost history / Mcgee Creek Dam, OK

Mcgee Creek Dam, OK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00345713, 1982 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 672 ft, 34.310, -95.868. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 28Nov 10
EarliestFeb 27 (2004)Oct 10 (2000)
LatestApr 14 (1997)Nov 28 (1994)
Trend5.0 days earlier per decade4.0 days later per decade
Years with data2628

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 14 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.

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 301990200020101983: Apr 141986: Mar 221987: Apr 51988: Mar 301989: Apr 121990: Apr 71991: Mar 151992: Apr 31994: Apr 71995: Apr 11996: Mar 261997: Apr 141998: Mar 221999: Mar 152000: Mar 122001: Feb 282002: Mar 232003: Apr 92004: Feb 272005: Mar 172006: Apr 102007: Mar 52008: Mar 252009: Apr 82010: Mar 222011: Apr 5

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 111990200020101982: Nov 41983: Nov 111985: Nov 91986: Nov 121987: Nov 111988: Nov 171989: Oct 201990: Nov 51991: Nov 11993: Oct 281994: Nov 281995: Nov 41996: Nov 21997: Nov 71998: Nov 61999: Nov 32000: Oct 102001: Nov 202002: Nov 252003: Nov 242004: Nov 252005: Nov 162006: Nov 202007: Nov 222008: Oct 282009: Nov 272010: Nov 62011: Nov 17

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
2011Apr 5Nov 17Mar 6Nov 28
2010Mar 22Nov 6Mar 4Nov 26
2009Apr 8Nov 27Apr 7Dec 4
2008Mar 25Oct 28Mar 9Nov 16
2007Mar 5Nov 22Mar 4Nov 23
2006Apr 10Nov 20Mar 24Dec 1
2005Mar 17Nov 16Feb 11Nov 29
2004Feb 27Nov 25Feb 16Dec 1
2003Apr 9Nov 24Mar 30Nov 24
2002Mar 23Nov 25Mar 22Nov 27
2001Feb 28Nov 20Feb 18Dec 10
2000Mar 12Oct 10Mar 12Nov 17
1999Mar 15Nov 3Mar 15Nov 3
1998Mar 22Nov 6Mar 13Dec 9
1997Apr 14Nov 7Apr 13Nov 15
1996Mar 26Nov 2Mar 26Nov 25
1995Apr 1Nov 4Mar 9Nov 4
1994Apr 7Nov 28Mar 11Nov 30
1993no dataOct 28no dataOct 30
1992Apr 3no dataMar 23no data
1991Mar 15Nov 1Feb 27Nov 2
1990Apr 7Nov 5Mar 20Dec 4
1989Apr 12Oct 20Apr 11Nov 3
1988Mar 30Nov 17Mar 19Nov 22
1987Apr 5Nov 11Apr 3Nov 29
1986Mar 22Nov 12Mar 1Nov 14
1985no dataNov 9no dataNov 20
1983Apr 14Nov 11Mar 28Nov 24
1982no dataNov 4no dataNov 4

"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.