Frost history / Las Vegas Air Terminal, NV
Las Vegas Air Terminal, NV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053123, 2001 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,203 ft, 36.212, -115.196. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 3 | Dec 5 |
| Earliest | Jan 1 (2010) | Nov 25 (2010) |
| Latest | Mar 3 (2002) | Dec 28 (2014) |
| Trend | 9.5 days earlier per decade | 3.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 24, 3 with no freeze | 24, 2 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 17 and the median first fall date is Dec 17.
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 | Jan 13 | Dec 12 | none | none |
| 2023 | Feb 1 | none | none | none |
| 2022 | Jan 4 | Dec 16 | Jan 2 | none |
| 2021 | none | Dec 11 | none | none |
| 2020 | Jan 12 | Dec 4 | none | none |
| 2019 | Feb 23 | Nov 30 | Jan 2 | none |
| 2018 | Feb 26 | none | none | none |
| 2017 | none | Dec 22 | none | none |
| 2016 | Feb 4 | Dec 17 | none | Dec 18 |
| 2015 | Jan 4 | Nov 29 | Jan 2 | Dec 30 |
| 2014 | Feb 2 | Dec 28 | none | none |
| 2013 | Jan 16 | Dec 4 | Jan 16 | Dec 6 |
| 2012 | Jan 18 | Dec 19 | none | Dec 20 |
| 2011 | Feb 4 | Dec 6 | Feb 3 | Dec 6 |
| 2010 | Jan 1 | Nov 25 | none | Nov 26 |
| 2009 | Feb 14 | Dec 4 | none | none |
| 2008 | Feb 7 | Dec 14 | Jan 17 | none |
| 2007 | Feb 3 | Dec 2 | Jan 17 | Dec 26 |
| 2006 | Jan 21 | Nov 29 | none | none |
| 2005 | none | Nov 28 | none | Dec 17 |
| 2004 | Feb 13 | Nov 29 | Feb 13 | Nov 30 |
| 2003 | Feb 9 | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 2002 | Mar 3 | Dec 19 | Feb 1 | none |
| 2001 | Feb 9 | Nov 28 | none | none |
"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.