Last Frost Day

Frost history / Peason Ridge Range, LA

Peason Ridge Range, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003949, 2006 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 365 ft, 31.400, -93.283. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 6Nov 14
EarliestJan 27 (2017)Oct 19 (2022)
LatestApr 1 (2019)Dec 4 (2009)
Trend8.0 days later per decade14.3 days earlier per decade
Years with data1615, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 19 and the median first fall date is Dec 8.

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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15201020202007: Mar 52008: Mar 92009: Mar 32010: Mar 42011: Feb 122012: Feb 122013: Mar 272014: Mar 72015: Mar 72017: Jan 272019: Apr 12020: Feb 272021: Mar 32022: Mar 132023: Mar 202024: Mar 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202006: Nov 172007: Nov 162008: Oct 282009: Dec 42010: Nov 262011: Nov 182012: Nov 132013: Nov 132014: Nov 142016: Nov 202017: Oct 292019: Nov 12022: Oct 192023: Nov 1

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
2024Mar 19no dataFeb 19no data
2023Mar 20Nov 1Mar 20Dec 11
2022Mar 13Oct 19Feb 13Dec 22
2021Mar 3noneFeb 20none
2020Feb 27no dataFeb 27no data
2019Apr 1Nov 1Mar 5Nov 13
2017Jan 27Oct 29Jan 9Dec 8
2016no dataNov 20no dataDec 19
2015Mar 7no dataMar 7no data
2014Mar 7Nov 14Mar 4Nov 14
2013Mar 27Nov 13Mar 26Nov 28
2012Feb 12Nov 13Jan 13Dec 13
2011Feb 12Nov 18Feb 12Dec 8
2010Mar 4Nov 26Feb 25Dec 7
2009Mar 3Dec 4Jan 29Dec 6
2008Mar 9Oct 28Jan 21Dec 22
2007Mar 5Nov 16Feb 16Dec 24
2006no dataNov 17no dataDec 4

"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.