Frost history / Vancouver Pearson Ap, WA
Vancouver Pearson Ap, WA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00094298, 1997 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 30 ft, 45.621, -122.657. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 31 | Nov 8 |
| Earliest | Mar 8 (2015) | Oct 10 (2019) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (2000) | Dec 9 (1998) |
| Trend | 5.6 days earlier per decade | 2.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 28 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.
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 14 | Nov 16 | Mar 7 | Dec 1 |
| 2023 | Mar 17 | Oct 28 | Mar 1 | Nov 24 |
| 2022 | Apr 6 | Nov 9 | Mar 10 | Nov 16 |
| 2021 | Apr 13 | Nov 17 | Mar 16 | Dec 27 |
| 2020 | Mar 26 | Oct 25 | Feb 21 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Mar 17 | Oct 10 | Mar 11 | Oct 30 |
| 2018 | Apr 3 | Nov 8 | Feb 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 19 | Oct 31 | Feb 13 | Dec 8 |
| 2016 | Mar 29 | Dec 6 | Jan 8 | Dec 6 |
| 2015 | Mar 8 | Nov 21 | Mar 4 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Mar 23 | Nov 12 | Mar 22 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 22 | Oct 29 | Mar 9 | Nov 20 |
| 2012 | Apr 7 | Nov 27 | Mar 7 | Dec 29 |
| 2011 | Apr 22 | Nov 2 | Feb 26 | Dec 1 |
| 2010 | Mar 19 | Nov 21 | Mar 18 | Nov 21 |
| 2009 | Apr 4 | Dec 2 | Mar 13 | Dec 2 |
| 2008 | Apr 3 | Nov 24 | Apr 1 | Dec 14 |
| 2007 | Apr 20 | Oct 31 | Feb 3 | Nov 22 |
| 2006 | Mar 20 | Oct 29 | Mar 3 | Oct 31 |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Nov 8 | Feb 24 | Nov 20 |
| 2004 | Apr 1 | Nov 4 | Feb 13 | none |
| 2003 | Mar 24 | Oct 31 | Feb 26 | Oct 31 |
| 2002 | Mar 22 | Oct 25 | Mar 18 | Nov 1 |
| 2001 | Apr 15 | Nov 7 | Feb 28 | Dec 22 |
| 2000 | Apr 24 | Nov 10 | Mar 6 | Nov 11 |
| 1999 | Apr 6 | Nov 4 | Mar 11 | Dec 22 |
| 1998 | Apr 1 | Dec 9 | Mar 6 | Dec 18 |
| 1997 | Apr 12 | Nov 15 | Apr 4 | Dec 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.