Last Frost Day

Frost history / Lusk 25NE, WY

Lusk 25NE, WY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00485833, 2003 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,136 ft, 42.937, -104.067. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 13Oct 1
EarliestApr 21 (2007)Sep 11 (2014)
LatestMay 23 (2019)Oct 16 (2015)
Trend3.2 days later per decade1.6 days later per decade
Years with data1414

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 6 and the median first fall date is Oct 9.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3020102004: May 142005: May 142007: Apr 212008: May 112010: May 132011: May 132012: May 122013: May 62014: May 192015: May 222016: May 182017: May 12018: May 12019: May 23

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 2720102003: Sep 182004: Oct 162005: Oct 52006: Sep 192007: Sep 142010: Oct 132011: Oct 132012: Oct 42013: Sep 282014: Sep 112015: Oct 162016: Oct 52017: Sep 282018: Sep 26

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
2019May 23no dataMay 3no data
2018May 1Sep 26Apr 25Oct 4
2017May 1Sep 28Apr 30Oct 4
2016May 18Oct 5May 17Oct 5
2015May 22Oct 16May 12Oct 27
2014May 19Sep 11Apr 15Oct 3
2013May 6Sep 28May 5Oct 5
2012May 12Oct 4May 12Oct 4
2011May 13Oct 13May 3Oct 19
2010May 13Oct 13May 8Oct 28
2008May 11no dataMay 11no data
2007Apr 21Sep 14Apr 21Oct 21
2006no dataSep 19no dataOct 12
2005May 14Oct 5May 13Oct 6
2004May 14Oct 16May 14Oct 18
2003no dataSep 18no dataOct 15

"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.