Last Frost Day

Frost history / Eagle Rvr Nature Ctr, AK

Eagle Rvr Nature Ctr, AK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00502642, 1983 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 520 ft, 61.234, -149.271. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 22Sep 17
EarliestMay 13 (2018)Aug 29 (2015)
LatestJul 29 (2012)Oct 4 (2022)
Trend0.9 days earlier per decade7.3 days later per decade
Years with data1011

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 2 and the median first fall date is Sep 26.

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 30May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29Jul 14Jul 29Aug 1319902000201020201983: May 222008: May 212012: Jul 292014: May 202017: May 302018: May 132020: May 272021: May 232022: May 152025: May 26

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 13Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 1219902000201020202013: Sep 202014: Sep 242015: Aug 292016: Sep 12017: Sep 102019: Sep 232020: Sep 112021: Sep 202022: Oct 42024: Sep 172025: Sep 15

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
2025May 26Sep 15May 9Sep 25
2024no dataSep 17no dataSep 22
2022May 15Oct 4May 15Oct 21
2021May 23Sep 20Apr 30Sep 21
2020May 27Sep 11May 2Oct 13
2019no dataSep 23no dataSep 26
2018May 13no dataMay 2no data
2017May 30Sep 10May 5Oct 14
2016no dataSep 1no dataOct 6
2015no dataAug 29no dataSep 9
2014May 20Sep 24Apr 20Sep 26
2013no dataSep 20no dataSep 20
2012Jul 29no dataMay 9no data
2008May 21no dataApr 28no data
1983May 22no dataApr 14no 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.