Last Frost Day

Frost history / Congerville 2NW, IL

Congerville 2NW, IL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00111836, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 640 ft, 40.621, -89.241. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 26Oct 13
EarliestApr 9 (2006)Sep 22 (1999)
LatestMay 20 (2002)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend0.9 days earlier per decade4.2 days later per decade
Years with data2829

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 21.

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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201997: May 161998: Apr 191999: Apr 192000: Apr 262001: Apr 192002: May 202003: May 32004: Apr 272005: May 162006: Apr 92007: Apr 162009: Apr 222010: May 92011: May 152012: Apr 232013: May 132014: Apr 172015: May 12016: Apr 132017: Apr 232018: Apr 292019: Apr 282020: May 122021: May 132022: Apr 262023: Apr 262024: Apr 252025: Apr 16

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201996: Oct 111997: Oct 151998: Oct 141999: Sep 222000: Oct 72001: Oct 62002: Oct 132003: Sep 292004: Oct 32005: Oct 162006: Oct 122007: Oct 282008: Oct 172009: Oct 102010: Oct 42011: Oct 22012: Sep 242013: Oct 142014: Oct 192015: Oct 172016: Nov 102017: Oct 292018: Oct 162019: Oct 122021: Nov 12022: Sep 292023: Oct 102024: Oct 152025: Oct 23

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
2025Apr 16Oct 23Apr 12Oct 24
2024Apr 25Oct 15Apr 21Oct 16
2023Apr 26Oct 10Apr 26Oct 31
2022Apr 26Sep 29Apr 3Oct 19
2021May 13Nov 1Apr 22Nov 3
2020May 12no dataMay 9no data
2019Apr 28Oct 12Apr 15Oct 31
2018Apr 29Oct 16Apr 29Oct 18
2017Apr 23Oct 29Mar 19Oct 29
2016Apr 13Nov 10Apr 12Nov 12
2015May 1Oct 17Apr 24Oct 18
2014Apr 17Oct 19Apr 16Oct 30
2013May 13Oct 14Apr 4Oct 22
2012Apr 23Sep 24Apr 12Oct 8
2011May 15Oct 2Apr 21Oct 21
2010May 9Oct 4Apr 9Oct 22
2009Apr 22Oct 10Apr 15Nov 5
2008no dataOct 17no dataOct 28
2007Apr 16Oct 28Apr 15Oct 28
2006Apr 9Oct 12Apr 9Oct 13
2005May 16Oct 16May 4Oct 28
2004Apr 27Oct 3Apr 14Oct 3
2003May 3Sep 29Apr 23Oct 2
2002May 20Oct 13May 20Oct 14
2001Apr 19Oct 6Apr 18Oct 17
2000Apr 26Oct 7Apr 12Oct 7
1999Apr 19Sep 22Apr 7Oct 5
1998Apr 19Oct 14Apr 5Oct 22
1997May 16Oct 15Apr 18Oct 19
1996no dataOct 11no dataOct 11

"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.