Frost history / Lancaster Wm J Fox Fld, CA
Lancaster Wm J Fox Fld, CA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003159, 1974 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,338 ft, 34.741, -118.212. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 7 | Oct 29 |
| Earliest | Feb 15 (2004) | Oct 2 (2019) |
| Latest | May 1 (2011) | Nov 21 (2007) |
| Trend | 2.7 days later per decade | 1.4 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 49 | 48 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.
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 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 | Feb 13 | Nov 7 |
| 2023 | Apr 15 | Oct 29 | Mar 27 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Mar 12 | Oct 24 | Mar 12 | Nov 4 |
| 2021 | Mar 31 | Oct 13 | Mar 17 | Nov 22 |
| 2020 | Mar 18 | Oct 27 | Feb 27 | Nov 10 |
| 2019 | Apr 13 | Oct 2 | Mar 16 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 18 | Oct 16 | Mar 6 | Nov 9 |
| 2017 | Mar 29 | Nov 18 | Mar 3 | Nov 19 |
| 2016 | Mar 23 | Nov 17 | Feb 6 | Nov 17 |
| 2015 | Apr 15 | Nov 5 | Mar 6 | Nov 11 |
| 2014 | Apr 3 | Nov 3 | Feb 3 | Nov 24 |
| 2013 | Apr 18 | Oct 17 | Mar 10 | Nov 6 |
| 2012 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 | Apr 8 | Nov 11 |
| 2011 | May 1 | Oct 27 | Mar 18 | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | Apr 7 | Oct 28 | Mar 15 | Nov 11 |
| 2009 | Apr 17 | Oct 6 | Apr 6 | Oct 29 |
| 2008 | Apr 17 | Oct 12 | Mar 17 | Oct 12 |
| 2007 | Apr 19 | Nov 21 | Mar 4 | Nov 22 |
| 2006 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 | Mar 22 | Oct 27 |
| 2005 | Apr 15 | Nov 16 | Mar 15 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Feb 15 | Nov 2 | Feb 14 | Nov 23 |
| 2003 | Mar 30 | Nov 2 | Mar 5 | Nov 4 |
| 2002 | Apr 21 | Nov 1 | Mar 19 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 13 | Nov 19 | Feb 8 | Nov 27 |
| 1999 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1998 | Apr 17 | Oct 18 | Mar 7 | Nov 10 |
| 1997 | Mar 9 | Oct 27 | Mar 6 | Dec 10 |
| 1996 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 1995 | Apr 10 | Oct 23 | Jan 19 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Mar 1 | Oct 17 | Feb 23 | Nov 4 |
| 1993 | Apr 13 | Nov 3 | Feb 2 | Nov 13 |
| 1992 | Mar 7 | Nov 10 | Feb 4 | Nov 11 |
| 1991 | Mar 17 | Oct 31 | Mar 16 | Oct 31 |
| 1990 | Mar 12 | Nov 4 | Feb 22 | Nov 4 |
| 1989 | Mar 21 | Oct 29 | Mar 4 | Oct 30 |
| 1988 | Apr 10 | Nov 16 | Mar 29 | Nov 16 |
| 1987 | Mar 31 | Nov 15 | Mar 25 | Nov 26 |
| 1986 | Apr 3 | Oct 14 | Feb 10 | Nov 9 |
| 1985 | Mar 31 | Oct 15 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 |
| 1984 | Mar 8 | Oct 18 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 |
| 1983 | Apr 16 | Nov 15 | Apr 6 | Nov 22 |
| 1982 | Apr 22 | Nov 3 | Mar 20 | Nov 3 |
| 1981 | Mar 31 | Oct 30 | Feb 27 | Nov 19 |
| 1980 | Apr 12 | Oct 29 | Feb 12 | Nov 14 |
| 1979 | Mar 3 | Oct 30 | Feb 11 | Nov 12 |
| 1978 | Feb 23 | Nov 3 | Jan 26 | Nov 15 |
| 1977 | Apr 3 | Nov 7 | Mar 29 | Nov 8 |
| 1976 | Apr 2 | Oct 28 | Mar 26 | Nov 27 |
| 1975 | Apr 10 | Oct 24 | Apr 2 | Oct 24 |
| 1974 | no data | Nov 5 | no data | Nov 23 |
"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.