Little Rock, AR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003952, 1977 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 568 ft, 34.836, -92.262. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 15	Nov 18
Earliest	Feb 11 (2011)	Oct 20 (1989)
Latest	Apr 21 (2021)	Dec 24 (2001)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	2.1 days later per decade
Years with data	48	48

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 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.

Chart

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	Mar 19	Nov 29	Feb 19	Dec 3
2023	Mar 21	Oct 31	Mar 20	Dec 31
2022	Mar 14	Nov 12	Mar 13	Nov 13
2021	Apr 21	Nov 14	Feb 21	none
2020	Feb 27	Nov 30	Feb 27	Dec 1
2019	Mar 6	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 8
2018	Apr 16	Nov 10	Feb 12	Nov 10
2017	Mar 16	Nov 23	Mar 16	Dec 8
2016	Feb 27	Dec 9	Feb 11	Dec 9
2015	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 7	none
2014	Mar 27	Nov 12	Mar 6	Nov 13
2013	Mar 27	Nov 13	Mar 4	Nov 13
2012	Feb 14	Nov 24	Feb 13	Dec 11
2011	Feb 11	Dec 6	Feb 11	Dec 8
2010	Mar 3	Nov 26	Feb 25	Dec 5
2009	Mar 12	Dec 3	Mar 3	Dec 4
2008	Mar 9	Nov 15	Mar 8	Nov 21
2007	Apr 8	Nov 23	Mar 4	Nov 23
2006	Mar 24	Nov 30	Feb 21	Dec 1
2005	Mar 14	Nov 17	Jan 24	Nov 17
2004	Feb 16	Nov 25	Feb 16	Dec 14
2003	Mar 10	Nov 24	Feb 27	none
2002	Mar 23	Nov 27	Mar 22	Dec 6
2001	Feb 19	Dec 24	Feb 18	Dec 25
2000	Mar 12	Nov 10	Feb 6	Nov 21
1999	Mar 7	Dec 6	Feb 22	Dec 21
1998	Mar 13	Dec 21	Mar 12	Dec 21
1997	Mar 16	Nov 15	Jan 30	Nov 16
1996	Mar 26	Nov 26	Mar 10	Nov 27
1995	Mar 9	Nov 4	Mar 9	Nov 29
1994	Mar 10	Dec 11	Feb 27	Dec 11
1993	Mar 18	Oct 30	Mar 14	Oct 31
1992	Mar 23	Nov 7	Mar 11	Dec 6
1991	Mar 30	Nov 2	Feb 16	Nov 2
1990	Mar 20	Dec 4	Feb 25	Dec 22
1989	Mar 22	Oct 20	Mar 9	Nov 17
1988	Mar 19	Nov 21	Mar 15	Dec 11
1987	Apr 4	Nov 11	Feb 9	Dec 16
1986	Mar 22	Nov 13	Mar 21	Nov 13
1985	Feb 16	Nov 20	Feb 15	Dec 1
1984	Mar 11	Nov 12	Mar 11	Nov 21
1983	Apr 19	Nov 12	Mar 11	Nov 29
1982	Apr 7	Nov 4	Mar 7	Nov 13
1981	Feb 14	Oct 24	Feb 14	Nov 21
1980	Mar 6	Oct 30	Mar 6	Nov 19
1979	Mar 25	Nov 11	Feb 19	Nov 11
1978	Mar 17	Nov 28	Mar 5	Dec 3
1977	Feb 27	Nov 25	Feb 16	Nov 26

"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.