Joplin 24 N, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00023908, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 952 ft, 37.428, -94.583. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 12	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 9 (2012)	Oct 7 (2012)
Latest	Apr 24 (2013)	Nov 10 (2016)
Trend	7.5 days later per decade	0.9 days earlier per decade
Years with data	17	18

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 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.

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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	Oct 16	Mar 27	Oct 16
2023	Apr 23	Oct 30	Mar 29	Oct 30
2022	Apr 19	Oct 18	Mar 12	Oct 18
2021	Apr 22	Nov 3	Apr 21	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 16	Mar 21	Oct 16
2019	Apr 12	Oct 12	Mar 31	Oct 31
2018	Apr 16	Oct 16	Apr 10	Nov 9
2017	Apr 7	Oct 28	Mar 15	Oct 28
2016	Apr 2	Nov 10	Mar 28	Nov 13
2015	Apr 4	Oct 29	Mar 6	Nov 21
2014	Apr 15	Oct 31	Apr 15	Oct 31
2013	Apr 24	Oct 23	Mar 27	Oct 25
2012	Mar 9	Oct 7	Mar 5	Oct 27
2011	Apr 5	Oct 20	Mar 10	Oct 21
2010	Mar 26	Oct 28	Mar 5	Nov 5
2009	Apr 11	Oct 10	Apr 7	Oct 18
2008	Apr 14	Oct 27	Apr 14	Oct 28
2007	no data	Nov 1	no data	Nov 6

"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.