Last Frost Day

Frost history / Anchorage Lake Hood Ap, AK

Anchorage Lake Hood Ap, AK: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00026491, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 90 ft, 61.178, -149.966. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 28Oct 1
EarliestApr 19 (2003)Sep 15 (2004)
LatestMay 20 (2013)Oct 27 (2018)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)3.9 days later per decade
Years with data2626

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 17 and the median first fall date is Oct 15.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201999: May 82000: May 32001: May 52002: May 102003: Apr 192004: Apr 232005: Apr 192006: May 82007: Apr 292008: Apr 282009: Apr 252010: Apr 242011: May 12012: May 32013: May 202014: Apr 272015: Apr 242016: Apr 212017: Apr 262018: Apr 272019: Apr 282020: May 52021: May 52022: Apr 212023: May 52024: May 10

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201998: Sep 291999: Sep 262000: Sep 182001: Oct 82002: Oct 32003: Sep 162004: Sep 152005: Oct 132006: Oct 142007: Oct 82008: Sep 292009: Sep 292010: Sep 272011: Oct 102012: Sep 302013: Sep 242014: Oct 12015: Sep 232016: Oct 62017: Oct 152018: Oct 272019: Sep 262020: Oct 142021: Sep 222022: Oct 102024: Oct 2

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
2024May 10Oct 2Apr 16Oct 18
2023May 5no dataApr 25no data
2022Apr 21Oct 10Apr 20Oct 13
2021May 5Sep 22May 1Sep 22
2020May 5Oct 14Apr 11Oct 16
2019Apr 28Sep 26Apr 5Oct 13
2018Apr 27Oct 27Apr 8Oct 29
2017Apr 26Oct 15Apr 19Oct 16
2016Apr 21Oct 6Mar 20Oct 14
2015Apr 24Sep 23Apr 14Oct 31
2014Apr 27Oct 1Apr 11Oct 8
2013May 20Sep 24Apr 29Nov 6
2012May 3Sep 30Apr 14Oct 16
2011May 1Oct 10Apr 15Oct 30
2010Apr 24Sep 27Apr 24Oct 14
2009Apr 25Sep 29Apr 9Oct 29
2008Apr 28Sep 29Apr 26Oct 8
2007Apr 29Oct 8Apr 13Oct 9
2006May 8Oct 14Apr 18Oct 24
2005Apr 19Oct 13Apr 18Oct 16
2004Apr 23Sep 15Apr 15Sep 24
2003Apr 19Sep 16Apr 9Oct 16
2002May 10Oct 3Apr 25Nov 8
2001May 5Oct 8May 4Oct 12
2000May 3Sep 18Apr 24Oct 1
1999May 8Sep 26Apr 28Oct 14
1998no dataSep 29no dataOct 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.