Last Frost Day

Frost history / Monroe 26 N, LA

Monroe 26 N, LA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053961, 2003 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 88 ft, 32.883, -92.116. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 19Nov 1
EarliestFeb 27 (2020)Oct 5 (2010)
LatestApr 15 (2008)Nov 30 (2020)
Trend8.8 days earlier per decade3.4 days earlier per decade
Years with data2222

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 13.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202003: Apr 102004: Mar 112005: Mar 182006: Mar 262007: Apr 82008: Apr 152009: Apr 82010: Mar 62011: Mar 112012: Mar 42013: Mar 282014: Mar 262015: Mar 72016: Mar 212017: Mar 142018: Mar 82019: Apr 22020: Feb 272021: Mar 32022: Mar 132023: Mar 202024: Mar 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202003: Nov 242004: Nov 282005: Oct 242006: Oct 232007: Nov 62008: Oct 272009: Nov 252010: Oct 52011: Oct 192012: Oct 292013: Nov 122014: Nov 12015: Nov 222016: Nov 132017: Oct 282018: Nov 142019: Nov 12020: Nov 302021: Nov 52022: Oct 182023: Nov 12024: Oct 17

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
2024Mar 19Oct 17Feb 19Nov 29
2023Mar 20Nov 1Mar 20Nov 1
2022Mar 13Oct 18Mar 13Nov 13
2021Mar 3Nov 5Feb 21Nov 19
2020Feb 27Nov 30Feb 27Nov 30
2019Apr 2Nov 1Mar 6Nov 12
2018Mar 8Nov 14Feb 8Nov 14
2017Mar 14Oct 28Jan 28Oct 29
2016Mar 21Nov 13Feb 26Nov 20
2015Mar 7Nov 22Mar 7Nov 22
2014Mar 26Nov 1Mar 13Nov 13
2013Mar 28Nov 12Mar 27Nov 13
2012Mar 4Oct 29Feb 25Nov 13
2011Mar 11Oct 19Mar 11Oct 20
2010Mar 6Oct 5Mar 4Nov 6
2009Apr 8Nov 25Mar 4Nov 27
2008Apr 15Oct 27Mar 9Oct 28
2007Apr 8Nov 6Mar 5Nov 7
2006Mar 26Oct 23Mar 25Nov 3
2005Mar 18Oct 24Jan 24Oct 26
2004Mar 11Nov 28Feb 28Dec 14
2003Apr 10Nov 24Feb 11Nov 24

"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.