Last Frost Day

Frost history / Tok #2, AK

Tok #2, AK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00509314, 2012 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,658 ft, 63.316, -143.006. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianJun 21Aug 17
EarliestJun 1 (2016)Aug 4 (2012)
LatestJul 29 (2022)Sep 3 (2023)
Trend7.3 days later per decade9.4 days later per decade
Years with data1413

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 30 and the median first fall date is Aug 22.

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 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29Jul 14Jul 29Aug 1320202012: Jul 92013: Jun 132014: Jul 212015: Jun 142016: Jun 12017: Jun 152018: Jul 182019: Jun 52020: Jul 22021: Jun 22022: Jul 292023: Jun 152024: Jul 282025: Jun 26

First fall frost (32°F)

Jul 29Aug 13Aug 28Sep 1220202012: Aug 42014: Aug 62015: Aug 82016: Aug 172017: Aug 182018: Aug 182019: Aug 192020: Aug 172021: Aug 192022: Aug 102023: Sep 32024: Aug 142025: Aug 12

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
2025Jun 26Aug 12May 28Aug 12
2024Jul 28Aug 14May 31Aug 14
2023Jun 15Sep 3May 27Sep 13
2022Jul 29Aug 10May 28Sep 4
2021Jun 2Aug 19May 25Aug 22
2020Jul 2Aug 17May 21Sep 4
2019Jun 5Aug 19May 14Aug 19
2018Jul 18Aug 18Jun 14Aug 19
2017Jun 15Aug 18Jun 15Sep 2
2016Jun 1Aug 17May 30Aug 30
2015Jun 14Aug 8Jun 13Aug 12
2014Jul 21Aug 6Jun 7Aug 28
2013Jun 13no dataJun 13no data
2012Jul 9Aug 4Jun 2Aug 22

"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.