All-time weather records — Fort Pierre, SD

Record high
117.0°F
July 15, 2006
Record low
-35.0°F
February 9, 1994
Wettest day
4.00 in
July 25, 1984

Climate change signal in Fort Pierre

9.6%

of Fort Pierre's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (35 of 366 records since 2015).

6.8%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (25 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1890s
·
·
1900s
·
·
1910s
·
·
1920s
·
·
1930s
72
27
1940s
39
41
1950s
30
51
1960s
26
49
1970s
30
41
1980s
43
44
1990s
39
39
2000s
40
26
2010s
22
33
2020s
25
15

Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1933, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 68.0°F — Jan 23, 1981 -33.0°F — Jan 29, 1966 1.02 in — Jan 9, 1939
February 75.0°F — Mar 1, 1992 -35.0°F — Feb 9, 1994 1.28 in — Feb 19, 1952
March 88.0°F — Mar 18, 2012 -19.8°F — Mar 1, 2014 2.23 in — Mar 14, 1942
April 98.1°F — Apr 21, 1980 0.1°F — Apr 4, 2018 2.13 in — Apr 26, 1964
May 105.1°F — May 27, 1969 21.2°F — May 3, 2013 2.72 in — May 13, 1982
June 111.9°F — Jun 24, 1988 34.0°F — Jun 3, 1998 3.33 in — Jun 9, 1971
July 117.0°F — Jul 15, 2006 42.1°F — Jul 1, 1959 4.00 in — Jul 25, 1984
August 114.1°F — Aug 14, 1937 39.0°F — Aug 12, 1964 3.52 in — Aug 2, 1953
September 108.0°F — Sep 2, 1983 21.0°F — Sep 22, 1995 2.74 in — Sep 2, 1999
October 98.1°F — Oct 2, 1997 2.1°F — Oct 27, 2020 2.54 in — Oct 6, 2007
November 87.1°F — Nov 8, 1999 -18.0°F — Nov 14, 1959 1.77 in — Nov 2, 1956
December 77.0°F — Dec 1, 1998 -31.0°F — Dec 30, 1990 0.97 in — Dec 31, 2010

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Fort Pierre.