Frost history / Elfin Cove, AK
Elfin Cove, AK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00502785, 1975 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 58.192, -136.344. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 23 | Oct 28 |
| Earliest | Apr 1 (2004) | Sep 13 (1992) |
| Latest | May 30 (1976) | Nov 15 (1993) |
| Trend | 1.7 days earlier per decade | 1.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 38 | 32 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Dec 7 |
| 2024 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | May 2 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 2020 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | Apr 21 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2013 | May 20 | no data | Apr 29 | no data |
| 2012 | May 15 | Oct 18 | Jan 28 | Oct 26 |
| 2011 | Apr 27 | no data | Mar 20 | no data |
| 2010 | Apr 23 | no data | Mar 10 | no data |
| 2009 | Apr 29 | Nov 13 | Apr 3 | Dec 12 |
| 2008 | Apr 20 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
| 2007 | Apr 22 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 2006 | May 16 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 2005 | Apr 15 | Nov 5 | Mar 17 | Nov 7 |
| 2004 | Apr 1 | Oct 23 | Jan 31 | Nov 8 |
| 2003 | Apr 13 | Oct 30 | Apr 3 | Nov 18 |
| 2002 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 8 | no data |
| 2001 | Apr 16 | Oct 31 | Apr 1 | Nov 26 |
| 2000 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 | Mar 7 | Dec 9 |
| 1999 | May 3 | Nov 3 | Mar 18 | Dec 15 |
| 1998 | Apr 12 | Oct 28 | Mar 11 | Nov 17 |
| 1997 | May 1 | Oct 12 | Mar 17 | Dec 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 12 | Sep 30 | Apr 8 | Nov 9 |
| 1995 | Apr 20 | Nov 7 | Mar 26 | Nov 9 |
| 1994 | Apr 18 | Oct 31 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 |
| 1993 | Apr 6 | Nov 15 | Mar 26 | Nov 20 |
| 1992 | Apr 9 | Sep 13 | Apr 9 | Oct 14 |
| 1991 | Apr 15 | Oct 16 | Mar 23 | Oct 25 |
| 1990 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Nov 8 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 1988 | Apr 21 | Nov 15 | Feb 10 | Nov 26 |
| 1987 | Apr 25 | Oct 30 | Mar 7 | Dec 14 |
| 1986 | no data | Nov 7 | no data | Nov 8 |
| 1985 | Apr 28 | Oct 24 | Mar 28 | Nov 5 |
| 1984 | Apr 25 | Oct 26 | Apr 25 | Oct 28 |
| 1983 | Apr 23 | Sep 27 | Apr 9 | Nov 20 |
| 1982 | May 14 | Oct 27 | Apr 6 | Nov 18 |
| 1981 | Apr 22 | Oct 4 | Apr 12 | Dec 9 |
| 1980 | Apr 17 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
| 1979 | Apr 27 | Nov 6 | Mar 31 | Dec 9 |
| 1978 | Apr 27 | Oct 28 | Apr 15 | Nov 8 |
| 1977 | May 11 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 1976 | May 30 | Oct 28 | Apr 7 | none |
| 1975 | May 23 | no data | Apr 20 | no 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.