Last Frost Day

Frost history / Brian Head, UT

Brian Head, UT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00420900, 1992 to 2006, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 9,770 ft, 37.693, -112.847. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianJun 17Sep 7
EarliestJun 4 (2002)Aug 5 (2006)
LatestJul 6 (2004)Sep 21 (1997)
Trend10.8 days earlier per decade26.9 days earlier per decade
Years with data1012

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jun 14 and the median first fall date is Sep 15.

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)

May 30Jun 14Jun 29Jul 1420001992: Jul 21997: Jul 61998: Jun 231999: Jun 132000: Jun 172001: Jun 172002: Jun 42004: Jul 62005: Jun 142006: Jun 16

First fall frost (32°F)

Jul 29Aug 13Aug 28Sep 12Sep 2720001995: Sep 181996: Sep 71997: Sep 211998: Sep 131999: Sep 42000: Sep 82001: Sep 62002: Sep 92003: Sep 112004: Sep 32005: Aug 202006: Aug 5

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
2006Jun 16Aug 5Jun 16Sep 16
2005Jun 14Aug 20Jun 10Sep 10
2004Jul 6Sep 3Jun 11Sep 4
2003no dataSep 11no dataSep 13
2002Jun 4Sep 9Jun 1Sep 19
2001Jun 17Sep 6Jun 16Sep 6
2000Jun 17Sep 8Jun 11Sep 23
1999Jun 13Sep 4Jun 12Sep 5
1998Jun 23Sep 13Jun 17Oct 1
1997Jul 6Sep 21Jul 1Sep 21
1996no dataSep 7no dataSep 14
1995no dataSep 18no dataSep 20
1992Jul 2no dataJul 2no 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.