Shreveport, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013957, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 273 ft, 32.451, -93.841. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 7	Nov 16
Earliest	Jan 27 (2017)	Oct 19 (1989)
Latest	Apr 11 (1989)	Dec 16 (1998)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	1.5 days later per decade
Years with data	74	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 22 and the median first fall date is Dec 2.

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	Feb 19	Nov 30	Jan 21	Nov 30
2023	Mar 20	Dec 11	none	none
2022	Mar 13	Nov 13	Feb 13	Dec 18
2021	Feb 21	Dec 12	Feb 20	none
2020	Feb 27	Nov 30	Feb 27	Dec 1
2019	Apr 2	Nov 1	Mar 6	Nov 12
2018	Feb 11	Nov 14	Jan 26	Nov 15
2017	Jan 27	Oct 29	Jan 8	Dec 8
2016	Mar 21	Nov 20	Feb 5	Dec 19
2015	Mar 7	Nov 23	Mar 7	none
2014	Mar 7	Nov 13	Mar 4	Nov 18
2013	Mar 27	Nov 13	Mar 26	Nov 28
2012	Feb 25	Nov 25	Feb 12	Dec 12
2011	Feb 12	Nov 28	Feb 12	Dec 7
2010	Mar 4	Nov 26	Mar 3	Dec 7
2009	Mar 3	Dec 4	Feb 22	Dec 4
2008	Feb 27	Nov 16	Feb 27	Nov 22
2007	Mar 5	Nov 16	Feb 16	Dec 4
2006	Mar 24	Nov 17	Feb 19	Dec 4
2005	Feb 10	Nov 17	Jan 24	Dec 6
2004	Feb 27	Dec 1	Feb 8	Dec 14
2003	Feb 26	Nov 24	Jan 24	Nov 24
2002	Mar 5	Nov 23	Mar 4	Dec 6
2001	Feb 18	Nov 21	Feb 3	Dec 24
2000	Feb 6	Nov 14	Feb 6	Nov 21
1999	Mar 15	Nov 26	Jan 15	Dec 16
1998	Mar 12	Dec 16	Mar 12	Dec 22
1997	Feb 15	Nov 15	Feb 11	Nov 17
1996	Mar 21	Nov 27	Mar 10	Dec 18
1995	Mar 10	Nov 12	Feb 8	Nov 29
1994	Mar 29	Dec 1	Mar 10	Dec 11
1993	Mar 14	Oct 30	Mar 14	Oct 31
1992	Mar 11	Nov 6	Jan 20	Nov 27
1991	Feb 27	Nov 3	Feb 16	Nov 3
1990	Feb 5	Nov 30	Jan 13	Dec 5
1989	Apr 11	Oct 19	Mar 8	Dec 3
1988	Mar 19	Nov 23	Mar 15	Nov 29
1987	Apr 5	Nov 11	Mar 31	Dec 2
1986	Mar 22	Nov 13	Mar 1	none
1985	Feb 16	Dec 1	Feb 13	Dec 2
1984	Mar 7	Nov 22	Mar 1	Nov 24
1983	Mar 22	Nov 25	Jan 24	Nov 29
1982	Mar 7	Dec 12	Mar 7	Dec 12
1981	Mar 20	Nov 20	Feb 14	Nov 21
1980	Mar 3	Oct 30	Mar 3	Nov 19
1979	Mar 5	Nov 14	Mar 5	Nov 30
1978	Mar 27	Dec 4	Mar 17	Dec 9
1977	Mar 20	Nov 10	Feb 20	Dec 6
1976	Feb 23	Oct 21	Feb 8	Nov 22
1975	Apr 3	Nov 14	Feb 24	Nov 22
1974	Feb 26	Nov 15	Feb 26	Dec 1
1973	Feb 19	Dec 6	Feb 11	Dec 7
1972	Mar 3	Dec 1	Feb 9	Dec 16
1971	Mar 8	Nov 25	Mar 8	none
1970	Mar 14	Nov 15	Feb 10	Nov 16
1969	Mar 11	Nov 14	Mar 11	Nov 14
1968	Mar 24	Nov 12	Mar 13	Nov 12
1967	Mar 7	Nov 4	Mar 7	Dec 4
1966	Mar 7	Nov 2	Mar 7	Nov 3
1965	Mar 21	Dec 8	Mar 20	none
1964	Mar 10	Nov 21	Feb 22	Nov 22
1963	Mar 6	Nov 13	Feb 22	Dec 14
1962	Mar 16	Nov 4	Mar 2	Dec 10
1961	Feb 10	Nov 30	Jan 30	Dec 13
1960	Mar 18	Nov 11	Mar 18	Dec 2
1959	Mar 6	Nov 6	Feb 21	Nov 7
1958	Feb 18	Nov 28	Feb 18	Nov 29
1957	Mar 8	Oct 28	Mar 8	Dec 11
1956	Mar 8	Nov 9	Jan 20	Nov 27
1955	Mar 28	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 29
1954	Mar 15	Dec 7	Feb 8	Dec 10
1953	Feb 22	Nov 10	none	Dec 15
1952	Feb 17	Oct 29	none	Dec 14
1951	Mar 15	Nov 2	Feb 16	Nov 2

"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.