Frost history / Oklahoma City Post Ap, OK
Oklahoma City Post Ap, OK: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003954, 1996 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,297 ft, 35.534, -97.647. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 30 | Nov 6 |
| Earliest | Mar 2 (2004) | Oct 8 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (2013) | Nov 25 (2024) |
| Trend | 4.8 days later per decade | 2.4 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 26 | 29 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 18.
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 | Mar 28 | Nov 25 | Feb 28 | Nov 26 |
| 2023 | Mar 29 | Oct 30 | Mar 19 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 | Mar 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2021 | Apr 21 | Nov 13 | Feb 22 | Nov 22 |
| 2020 | Apr 15 | Oct 26 | Feb 28 | Nov 30 |
| 2019 | Mar 31 | Oct 12 | Mar 16 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Apr 15 | Nov 9 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2017 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 | Mar 2 | Nov 22 |
| 2016 | Apr 2 | Nov 19 | Mar 20 | Nov 26 |
| 2015 | Mar 6 | Nov 13 | Mar 5 | Nov 21 |
| 2014 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | Apr 24 | Oct 19 | Mar 26 | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Mar 9 | Oct 27 | Feb 25 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | Mar 15 | Nov 4 | Mar 5 | Nov 4 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 | Mar 22 | Nov 25 |
| 2009 | Apr 7 | Nov 18 | Apr 7 | Nov 18 |
| 2008 | Apr 14 | Oct 27 | Mar 8 | Nov 21 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Nov 21 | Mar 4 | Nov 22 |
| 2006 | Mar 24 | Oct 22 | Mar 24 | Nov 2 |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Oct 25 | Mar 1 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | Mar 2 | Nov 24 | Feb 26 | Nov 30 |
| 2003 | Apr 9 | Nov 6 | Apr 9 | Nov 6 |
| 2002 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 | Mar 26 | Nov 25 |
| 2001 | Mar 25 | Nov 19 | Mar 1 | Nov 20 |
| 2000 | Apr 4 | Oct 8 | Mar 4 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | Nov 23 | Mar 15 | Nov 24 |
| 1998 | Mar 21 | Nov 20 | Mar 21 | Dec 8 |
| 1997 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 1996 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Nov 17 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.