Frost history / Grants Pass, OR
Grants Pass, OR: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00353445, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 932 ft, 42.424, -123.322. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 22 | Oct 18 |
| Earliest | Jan 21 (2016) | Sep 14 (1970) |
| Latest | May 28 (1951) | Dec 2 (2016) |
| Trend | 5.7 days earlier per decade | 2.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 56 | 54 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 20 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.
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 | Mar 12 | no data | Feb 13 | no data |
| 2024 | Mar 17 | Oct 25 | none | none |
| 2023 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 | Mar 6 | Oct 29 |
| 2022 | Apr 16 | Nov 14 | Mar 20 | Nov 16 |
| 2021 | Apr 11 | Oct 12 | Mar 17 | none |
| 2020 | Apr 4 | Oct 24 | Feb 27 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | Mar 17 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 2018 | Apr 4 | Oct 17 | Mar 6 | Nov 8 |
| 2017 | Apr 10 | Oct 12 | Jan 8 | Dec 7 |
| 2016 | Jan 21 | Dec 2 | Jan 3 | Dec 7 |
| 2015 | Mar 6 | Nov 11 | Mar 2 | Nov 26 |
| 2014 | Mar 24 | Nov 16 | Feb 6 | Nov 17 |
| 2013 | Apr 18 | Nov 21 | Mar 24 | Nov 21 |
| 2012 | Mar 24 | Nov 9 | Mar 20 | none |
| 2011 | Apr 23 | Oct 25 | Feb 27 | Oct 27 |
| 2010 | May 6 | Nov 22 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 |
| 2009 | Apr 17 | Oct 6 | Mar 13 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 11 | no data | Dec 16 |
| 1996 | May 10 | Sep 23 | May 6 | Nov 6 |
| 1995 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 23 |
| 1990 | Mar 29 | Oct 6 | Mar 13 | Nov 2 |
| 1989 | May 19 | Oct 4 | Mar 3 | Oct 29 |
| 1988 | May 1 | Sep 18 | Apr 8 | Dec 14 |
| 1987 | Apr 20 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 1986 | May 12 | Oct 12 | Mar 18 | none |
| 1984 | May 16 | Sep 25 | Feb 2 | Dec 19 |
| 1983 | Apr 24 | Nov 29 | Feb 4 | Dec 22 |
| 1982 | Apr 19 | Oct 18 | Mar 21 | Nov 14 |
| 1981 | Apr 13 | no data | Feb 1 | no data |
| 1980 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Dec 7 |
| 1979 | Apr 19 | Nov 20 | Feb 3 | Nov 27 |
| 1978 | May 5 | Oct 31 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 |
| 1977 | Apr 20 | Nov 4 | Apr 18 | Nov 18 |
| 1976 | Apr 18 | Oct 18 | Apr 2 | Nov 26 |
| 1975 | Apr 29 | Nov 13 | Apr 5 | Nov 18 |
| 1974 | Apr 17 | Oct 5 | Mar 8 | Dec 23 |
| 1973 | Apr 21 | Oct 3 | Mar 23 | none |
| 1972 | Apr 30 | Oct 6 | Apr 30 | Oct 27 |
| 1971 | May 17 | Oct 16 | Mar 19 | Oct 17 |
| 1970 | Apr 22 | Sep 14 | Apr 12 | Oct 7 |
| 1969 | May 2 | Oct 5 | Mar 25 | Nov 29 |
| 1968 | May 6 | Oct 8 | Apr 18 | Dec 20 |
| 1967 | May 1 | Nov 19 | Apr 28 | Nov 23 |
| 1966 | Apr 29 | Oct 14 | Mar 23 | Dec 22 |
| 1965 | May 8 | Sep 18 | Mar 25 | Dec 13 |
| 1964 | May 6 | Oct 17 | Apr 18 | Nov 15 |
| 1963 | Apr 20 | Oct 27 | Apr 20 | Dec 7 |
| 1962 | Apr 30 | no data | Mar 14 | no data |
| 1961 | Apr 25 | Sep 29 | Apr 14 | Nov 15 |
| 1960 | Apr 24 | Oct 10 | Mar 1 | Nov 4 |
| 1959 | Apr 16 | Oct 29 | Mar 14 | Oct 29 |
| 1958 | May 13 | Oct 21 | Mar 7 | Nov 16 |
| 1957 | Apr 25 | Oct 20 | Apr 7 | Nov 2 |
| 1956 | Apr 17 | Nov 14 | Apr 3 | Nov 19 |
| 1955 | Apr 28 | Oct 6 | Apr 27 | Nov 14 |
| 1954 | May 27 | Sep 29 | May 1 | Oct 24 |
| 1953 | May 11 | Oct 21 | Apr 7 | Dec 23 |
| 1952 | May 2 | Nov 1 | Apr 8 | Nov 3 |
| 1951 | May 28 | Oct 31 | Apr 1 | Nov 17 |
"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.