Frost history / Grand Chain Dam 53, IL
Grand Chain Dam 53, IL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00113580, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 385 ft, 37.204, -89.042. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 26 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (2010) | Oct 7 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 21 (2013) | Nov 27 (2009) |
| Trend | 4.4 days earlier per decade | 0.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 22 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Mar 20 | Oct 17 | Mar 19 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | no data | Mar 21 | no data |
| 2022 | Apr 2 | Oct 18 | Mar 13 | Nov 13 |
| 2021 | Apr 2 | Nov 4 | Feb 22 | Nov 24 |
| 2020 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 2019 | Mar 8 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 2015 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 29 | no data |
| 2013 | Apr 21 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 2011 | Mar 28 | Nov 12 | Feb 13 | Nov 17 |
| 2010 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Nov 26 |
| 2009 | Mar 14 | Nov 27 | Mar 5 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Oct 28 | Mar 9 | Nov 10 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 | Apr 9 | Nov 24 |
| 2006 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 2005 | Mar 16 | Nov 17 | Mar 15 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Mar 25 | Nov 25 | Mar 13 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 8 | Mar 11 | Nov 29 |
| 2002 | Apr 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 28 | Nov 27 |
| 2000 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 | Mar 17 | Nov 30 |
| 1998 | Mar 14 | Nov 5 | Mar 14 | Dec 9 |
| 1997 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 | Apr 7 | Nov 3 |
"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.