Frost history / Ft Polk Fullerton Lndg Strip, LA
Ft Polk Fullerton Lndg Strip, LA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053988, 2006 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 310 ft, 31.150, -92.967. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 7 | Nov 16 |
| Earliest | Jan 9 (2017) | Oct 29 (2017) |
| Latest | Apr 7 (2009) | Nov 30 (2024) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 2.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 10 | 11, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 6 and the median first fall date is Dec 7.
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 | no data | Nov 30 | no data | none |
| 2023 | Mar 20 | no data | none | no data |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 17 | Feb 6 | Dec 22 |
| 2021 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2018 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 15 |
| 2017 | Jan 9 | Oct 29 | Jan 8 | Dec 9 |
| 2016 | Mar 21 | Nov 20 | Feb 5 | Dec 19 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 2012 | Feb 12 | Nov 15 | Jan 13 | Dec 27 |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 11 | Feb 12 | Dec 7 |
| 2010 | Mar 4 | Nov 6 | Feb 25 | Dec 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 7 | Nov 27 | Jan 21 | Dec 5 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2006 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Dec 4 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.