Last Frost Day

Frost history / Corvallis 10 Ssw, OR

Corvallis 10 Ssw, OR: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00004236, 2007 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 312 ft, 44.419, -123.326. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 28
EarliestMar 8 (2016)Oct 9 (2019)
LatestMay 12 (2011)Dec 4 (2016)
Trend11.9 days earlier per decade3.9 days earlier per decade
Years with data1717

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 21.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202007: Apr 202008: Apr 252009: Apr 302010: Apr 142011: May 122012: Apr 62013: Apr 302014: Mar 232015: Apr 152016: Mar 82017: Apr 152018: Apr 32019: Mar 262020: Apr 132021: Apr 92022: Apr 172023: Apr 13

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202007: Oct 282008: Oct 112009: Oct 112010: Nov 212011: Oct 262012: Nov 262013: Oct 292014: Nov 142015: Nov 122016: Dec 42017: Oct 142018: Oct 152019: Oct 92020: Oct 222021: Oct 122022: Nov 72023: Oct 28

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
2023Apr 13Oct 28Mar 1Oct 29
2022Apr 17Nov 7Apr 15Nov 10
2021Apr 9Oct 12Apr 5Nov 21
2020Apr 13Oct 22Apr 3Oct 26
2019Mar 26Oct 9Mar 11Oct 10
2018Apr 3Oct 15Mar 6Nov 9
2017Apr 15Oct 14Feb 27Dec 6
2016Mar 8Dec 4Jan 3Dec 15
2015Apr 15Nov 12Mar 4Nov 21
2014Mar 23Nov 14Feb 8Nov 14
2013Apr 30Oct 29Jan 22Nov 21
2012Apr 6Nov 26Mar 23none
2011May 12Oct 26Feb 26Dec 3
2010Apr 14Nov 21Feb 22Nov 23
2009Apr 30Oct 11Apr 4Dec 2
2008Apr 25Oct 11Mar 31Dec 5
2007Apr 20Oct 28Feb 2Nov 22

"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.