Frost history / Craig, AK
Craig, AK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00502227, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 43 ft, 55.477, -133.141. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 16 | Nov 3 |
| Earliest | Mar 6 (2024) | Sep 25 (1951) |
| Latest | May 14 (1952) | Dec 13 (1999) |
| Trend | 3.6 days earlier per decade | 4.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 22 | 22, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 19.
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 | Mar 6 | none | Mar 6 | none |
| 2023 | Apr 11 | Oct 23 | Mar 14 | none |
| 2022 | Apr 18 | Nov 1 | Apr 17 | Nov 7 |
| 2021 | Apr 12 | Dec 3 | Mar 15 | Dec 4 |
| 2020 | Apr 12 | Oct 22 | Apr 11 | Oct 24 |
| 2019 | Apr 27 | Nov 26 | Mar 8 | Nov 27 |
| 2018 | Apr 5 | Nov 7 | Apr 5 | Dec 2 |
| 2016 | Mar 18 | Nov 17 | Jan 6 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Apr 22 | Nov 18 | Feb 8 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | Apr 13 | Nov 10 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
| 2013 | Apr 30 | Nov 3 | Apr 20 | Nov 11 |
| 2012 | Apr 9 | Oct 20 | Mar 24 | Oct 23 |
| 2011 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 |
| 2010 | Apr 13 | Oct 28 | Feb 9 | Nov 18 |
| 2009 | Apr 23 | Oct 13 | Apr 3 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 2007 | May 8 | Oct 19 | Apr 4 | Nov 30 |
| 2006 | Apr 21 | Oct 29 | Mar 19 | Nov 3 |
| 2005 | Apr 14 | Nov 6 | Mar 24 | Nov 29 |
| 2004 | Mar 20 | no data | Feb 4 | no data |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2002 | no data | Dec 4 | no data | Dec 21 |
| 1999 | no data | Dec 13 | no data | Dec 13 |
| 1952 | May 14 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 1951 | Apr 23 | Sep 25 | Apr 19 | Oct 24 |
"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.