Last Frost Day

Frost history / Albion, IL

Albion, IL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00110055, 1952 to 2005, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 530 ft, 38.378, -88.057. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 9Oct 27
EarliestMar 21 (1988)Oct 2 (1974)
LatestMay 10 (1966)Nov 21 (1994)
Trend1.2 days earlier per decadelittle change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data4341

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 5.

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15196019701980199020001953: Apr 201954: Apr 31955: Mar 301956: Mar 311957: Apr 151958: Mar 231959: Apr 131960: Apr 101961: Apr 161962: Apr 161963: Apr 241964: Apr 91965: Mar 311966: May 101967: Mar 221968: Mar 241969: Mar 311970: Apr 51971: Apr 141972: Apr 91973: Apr 141974: Apr 91975: Apr 121976: Apr 261977: Apr 51978: May 21981: Mar 231982: Apr 91983: May 81984: Mar 231985: Apr 91986: Mar 231987: Apr 61988: Mar 211989: Apr 111990: Apr 181991: Mar 301992: Apr 61993: Apr 31994: Apr 71995: Apr 61999: Apr 162005: Mar 21

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26196019701980199020001952: Oct 71953: Nov 51954: Oct 301955: Nov 31956: Nov 91957: Oct 271958: Nov 71959: Nov 61960: Oct 201961: Oct 271962: Oct 241963: Nov 21964: Oct 101965: Oct 241966: Oct 301967: Oct 261968: Oct 261969: Oct 231970: Nov 41972: Oct 191973: Nov 61974: Oct 21975: Nov 141976: Oct 181977: Nov 111978: Oct 161980: Oct 261981: Oct 241983: Nov 51984: Nov 21985: Nov 201986: Nov 101987: Oct 81988: Oct 121989: Oct 191990: Oct 261991: Nov 21992: Oct 181993: Oct 271994: Nov 211997: Oct 22

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
2005Mar 21no dataMar 20no data
1999Apr 16no dataApr 16no data
1997no dataOct 22no dataNov 16
1995Apr 6no dataApr 5no data
1994Apr 7Nov 21Apr 7Nov 21
1993Apr 3Oct 27Apr 2Oct 31
1992Apr 6Oct 18Apr 6Oct 18
1991Mar 30Nov 2Mar 30Nov 2
1990Apr 18Oct 26Apr 7Dec 5
1989Apr 11Oct 19Mar 22Nov 3
1988Mar 21Oct 12Mar 21Nov 21
1987Apr 6Oct 8Apr 6Nov 11
1986Mar 23Nov 10Mar 23Nov 11
1985Apr 9Nov 20Mar 18Nov 20
1984Mar 23Nov 2Mar 12Nov 13
1983May 8Nov 5Apr 24Nov 5
1982Apr 9no dataApr 7no data
1981Mar 23Oct 24Mar 19Oct 24
1980no dataOct 26no dataOct 29
1978May 2Oct 16Mar 18Dec 4
1977Apr 5Nov 11Mar 2Nov 12
1976Apr 26Oct 18Mar 17Oct 18
1975Apr 12Nov 14Apr 5Nov 14
1974Apr 9Oct 2Apr 9Oct 21
1973Apr 14Nov 6Apr 11Nov 6
1972Apr 9Oct 19Apr 9Oct 20
1971Apr 14no dataApr 7no data
1970Apr 5Nov 4Mar 29Nov 16
1969Mar 31Oct 23Mar 31Oct 23
1968Mar 24Oct 26Mar 24Nov 10
1967Mar 22Oct 26Mar 22Nov 4
1966May 10Oct 30Mar 31Nov 2
1965Mar 31Oct 24Mar 27Oct 29
1964Apr 9Oct 10Apr 9Nov 20
1963Apr 24Nov 2Mar 22Nov 2
1962Apr 16Oct 24Apr 16Oct 24
1961Apr 16Oct 27Apr 7Nov 4
1960Apr 10Oct 20Apr 10Nov 7
1959Apr 13Nov 6Mar 28Nov 6
1958Mar 23Nov 7Mar 22Nov 26
1957Apr 15Oct 27Apr 13Oct 28
1956Mar 31Nov 9Mar 30Nov 9
1955Mar 30Nov 3Mar 29Nov 3
1954Apr 3Oct 30Apr 1Oct 30
1953Apr 20Nov 5Apr 19Nov 6
1952no dataOct 7no dataOct 7

"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.