Last Frost Day

Frost history / Dayville 8 Nw, OR

Dayville 8 Nw, OR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00352173, 1979 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,260 ft, 44.556, -119.645. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 3Oct 3
EarliestApr 15 (1983)Aug 24 (1992)
LatestMay 28 (1989)Nov 1 (2022)
Trend1.9 days earlier per decade13.1 days later per decade
Years with data1511

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14198019902000201020201979: Apr 211981: May 121982: May 191983: Apr 151988: May 21989: May 281990: May 81991: May 31996: May 101997: May 32001: May 62005: Apr 182006: May 92014: Apr 282023: Apr 26

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 13Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11198019902000201020201982: Sep 151988: Sep 211989: Oct 31990: Oct 61991: Oct 41992: Aug 241996: Sep 212000: Sep 232004: Oct 242005: Oct 292022: Nov 1

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
2023Apr 26no dataApr 21no data
2022no dataNov 1no dataNov 1
2014Apr 28no dataMar 23no data
2006May 9no dataMay 9no data
2005Apr 18Oct 29Mar 25Nov 8
2004no dataOct 24no dataNov 4
2001May 6no dataMay 3no data
2000no dataSep 23no dataSep 23
1997May 3no dataApr 12no data
1996May 10Sep 21May 10Sep 25
1992no dataAug 24no dataOct 14
1991May 3Oct 4Apr 12Oct 22
1990May 8Oct 6May 8Oct 7
1989May 28Oct 3Mar 23Oct 3
1988May 2Sep 21Apr 9Oct 27
1983Apr 15no dataApr 14no data
1982May 19Sep 15May 4Oct 19
1981May 12no dataApr 10no data
1979Apr 21no dataApr 20no data

"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.