Frost history / Fern Ridge-Veneta, OR
Fern Ridge-Veneta, OR: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00352867, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 485 ft, 44.049, -123.370. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 23 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Feb 6 (1983) | Sep 28 (1972) |
| Latest | May 22 (2020) | Dec 23 (1953) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 2.9 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 49 | 50 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 25 |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2022 | Apr 15 | Nov 4 | Mar 10 | Nov 10 |
| 2020 | May 22 | Oct 21 | Apr 2 | Oct 25 |
| 2019 | no data | Sep 29 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 2018 | Apr 6 | Oct 15 | Apr 5 | Nov 9 |
| 2017 | Apr 30 | no data | Apr 16 | no data |
| 2016 | Apr 25 | Nov 17 | Feb 24 | Dec 4 |
| 2015 | Apr 16 | Nov 3 | Mar 31 | Nov 21 |
| 2014 | Mar 25 | Nov 12 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
| 2013 | Apr 29 | Oct 14 | Mar 4 | Oct 28 |
| 2012 | May 18 | Oct 5 | Mar 23 | none |
| 2011 | May 1 | Oct 27 | Apr 22 | Nov 2 |
| 2010 | May 6 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Nov 23 |
| 1988 | Mar 16 | no data | Feb 6 | no data |
| 1987 | Mar 28 | Nov 29 | Feb 26 | Dec 25 |
| 1986 | Feb 19 | Nov 10 | Feb 10 | Dec 9 |
| 1985 | Mar 25 | Oct 9 | Feb 19 | Nov 11 |
| 1984 | Feb 22 | Oct 17 | Feb 1 | Dec 4 |
| 1983 | Feb 6 | Nov 7 | Jan 12 | Dec 21 |
| 1982 | Apr 18 | Nov 8 | Feb 11 | Nov 14 |
| 1981 | Apr 13 | Nov 25 | Feb 9 | Nov 28 |
| 1980 | Apr 7 | Nov 10 | Feb 14 | Dec 8 |
| 1979 | Mar 2 | Nov 15 | Mar 1 | Dec 11 |
| 1978 | May 5 | Nov 5 | Jan 3 | Nov 10 |
| 1977 | May 7 | Nov 4 | Mar 14 | Nov 19 |
| 1976 | Apr 21 | Nov 24 | Mar 6 | Nov 27 |
| 1975 | May 20 | Nov 1 | Feb 22 | Nov 29 |
| 1974 | May 13 | Oct 6 | Mar 9 | none |
| 1973 | Apr 29 | Nov 2 | Jan 29 | Nov 3 |
| 1972 | Apr 30 | Sep 28 | Feb 4 | Dec 4 |
| 1971 | May 18 | Oct 17 | Mar 17 | Oct 28 |
| 1970 | Apr 28 | Oct 28 | Jan 7 | Nov 21 |
| 1969 | Apr 30 | Oct 14 | Mar 15 | Nov 27 |
| 1968 | Apr 19 | Nov 4 | Apr 13 | Dec 19 |
| 1967 | Apr 28 | Nov 21 | Feb 21 | Dec 13 |
| 1966 | Mar 23 | Nov 8 | Mar 17 | none |
| 1965 | May 8 | Nov 29 | Mar 19 | Dec 13 |
| 1964 | May 6 | Oct 26 | Feb 27 | Nov 16 |
| 1963 | Apr 22 | Nov 20 | Jan 31 | Nov 29 |
| 1962 | Apr 30 | Nov 24 | Mar 13 | Nov 29 |
| 1961 | Apr 23 | Oct 22 | Jan 23 | Nov 17 |
| 1960 | Apr 23 | Nov 9 | Mar 10 | Dec 7 |
| 1959 | Apr 14 | Nov 5 | Mar 14 | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | Mar 16 | Nov 15 | Mar 4 | Nov 16 |
| 1957 | Apr 7 | Nov 4 | Feb 22 | Nov 4 |
| 1956 | Apr 6 | Nov 18 | Apr 5 | Nov 20 |
| 1955 | Apr 24 | Nov 12 | Mar 20 | Nov 13 |
| 1954 | May 1 | Oct 26 | Mar 14 | Dec 1 |
| 1953 | Apr 8 | Dec 23 | Mar 2 | none |
| 1952 | May 4 | Nov 8 | Mar 21 | Nov 23 |
| 1951 | Apr 21 | Oct 31 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 |
"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.