Last Frost Day

Frost history / Rex 1 S, OR

Rex 1 S, OR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00357127, 1975 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 515 ft, 45.303, -122.913. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 2Nov 15
EarliestFeb 2 (2016)Oct 25 (2020)
LatestApr 19 (2011)Dec 5 (2017)
Trend2.7 days later per decade2.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data1416

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 1 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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30198019902000201020201976: Mar 122011: Apr 192012: Apr 62013: Mar 232014: Mar 272015: Apr 152016: Feb 22017: Apr 32018: Apr 22019: Mar 132020: Apr 32021: Apr 112022: Apr 152024: Mar 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11198019902000201020201975: Nov 181976: Nov 272011: Nov 12012: Nov 102013: Nov 202014: Nov 122015: Nov 232016: Dec 52017: Dec 52018: Dec 32019: Oct 292020: Oct 252021: Nov 212022: Nov 72023: Oct 282024: Nov 8

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
2024Mar 8Nov 8Mar 7Nov 8
2023no dataOct 28no dataNov 29
2022Apr 15Nov 7Apr 14Nov 20
2021Apr 11Nov 21Mar 16Nov 21
2020Apr 3Oct 25Feb 4Nov 9
2019Mar 13Oct 29Mar 11Nov 29
2018Apr 2Dec 3Feb 23none
2017Apr 3Dec 5Feb 23Dec 12
2016Feb 2Dec 5Jan 4Dec 7
2015Apr 15Nov 23Jan 2Nov 23
2014Mar 27Nov 12Feb 9Nov 13
2013Mar 23Nov 20Mar 22Nov 21
2012Apr 6Nov 10Mar 7Dec 31
2011Apr 19Nov 1Feb 27Nov 2
1976Mar 12Nov 27Mar 3none
1975no dataNov 18no dataDec 12

"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.