Last Frost Day

Frost history / Phoenix Deer Valley Muni Ap, AZ

Phoenix Deer Valley Muni Ap, AZ: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003184, 1999 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,455 ft, 33.688, -112.082. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianJan 20Dec 20
EarliestJan 2 (2022)Nov 29 (2010)
LatestMar 3 (2002)Dec 30 (2018)
Trend1.6 days earlier per decadelittle change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data26, 12 with no freeze25, 13 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 15 and the median first fall date is Dec 29.

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)

Dec 16Dec 31Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 162000201020202002: Mar 32004: Jan 52006: Jan 222007: Jan 152008: Jan 182011: Feb 42013: Jan 162015: Jan 32016: Feb 32017: Jan 282019: Feb 202022: Jan 22023: Feb 162024: Jan 12

First fall frost (32°F)

Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26Jan 102000201020202003: Dec 282004: Dec 252005: Dec 162006: Nov 302007: Dec 262008: Dec 272010: Nov 292011: Dec 62013: Dec 62014: Dec 262015: Dec 162018: Dec 30

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
2024Jan 12nonenonenone
2023Feb 16nonenonenone
2022Jan 2nonenonenone
2021nonenonenonenone
2020nonenonenonenone
2019Feb 20no datanoneno data
2018noneDec 30nonenone
2017Jan 28nonenonenone
2016Feb 3nonenonenone
2015Jan 3Dec 16nonenone
2014noneDec 26nonenone
2013Jan 16Dec 6Jan 15none
2012nonenonenonenone
2011Feb 4Dec 6Feb 4none
2010noneNov 29nonenone
2009nonenonenonenone
2008Jan 18Dec 27nonenone
2007Jan 15Dec 26Jan 15none
2006Jan 22Nov 30nonenone
2005noneDec 16nonenone
2004Jan 5Dec 25nonenone
2003noneDec 28noneDec 29
2002Mar 3nonenonenone
2001nonenonenonenone
2000nonenonenonenone
1999nonenonenonenone

"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.