Last Frost Day

Frost history / Alsea Fh (Fall Creek), OR

Alsea Fh (Fall Creek), OR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00350145, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 230 ft, 44.404, -123.753. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 22Oct 28
EarliestMar 8 (2015)Oct 2 (2019)
LatestMay 12 (2012)Dec 6 (2016)
Trend3.7 days earlier per decade1.4 days earlier per decade
Years with data1617

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.

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 15May 30201020202009: Apr 242010: Apr 132011: Apr 222012: May 122013: May 12014: Apr 302015: Mar 82016: Apr 272017: Apr 52018: Apr 232019: May 22020: Apr 152021: Apr 272022: Apr 172023: Apr 132024: Apr 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202008: Nov 242009: Oct 62010: Nov 202011: Oct 252012: Oct 52013: Oct 142014: Nov 122015: Nov 212016: Dec 62017: Oct 152018: Nov 82019: Oct 22020: Oct 222021: Nov 182022: Nov 82023: Oct 282024: Oct 24

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
2024Apr 19Oct 24Mar 7Dec 1
2023Apr 13Oct 28Mar 2Oct 29
2022Apr 17Nov 8Mar 13Nov 15
2021Apr 27Nov 18Apr 12Dec 28
2020Apr 15Oct 22Mar 24Oct 26
2019May 2Oct 2Mar 12Oct 28
2018Apr 23Nov 8Mar 7Nov 9
2017Apr 5Oct 15Jan 17Dec 8
2016Apr 27Dec 6Jan 4Dec 7
2015Mar 8Nov 21Mar 6Nov 22
2014Apr 30Nov 12Mar 24Nov 12
2013May 1Oct 14Mar 5Oct 30
2012May 12Oct 5Mar 9none
2011Apr 22Oct 25Feb 26Dec 5
2010Apr 13Nov 20Feb 21Nov 23
2009Apr 24Oct 6Mar 13Dec 1
2008no dataNov 24no dataDec 14

"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.