Last Frost Day

Frost history / Grayville, IL

Grayville, IL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00113612, 2001 to 2012, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 435 ft, 38.276, -87.999. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 31Oct 29
EarliestMar 11 (2012)Oct 7 (2001)
LatestApr 14 (2007)Nov 13 (2004)
Trend14.5 days earlier per decade14.0 days later per decade
Years with data1010

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 3020102002: Apr 62003: Apr 72005: Mar 302006: Mar 272007: Apr 142008: Mar 252009: Apr 92010: Mar 272011: Apr 22012: Mar 11

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620102001: Oct 72002: Oct 142003: Nov 72004: Nov 132006: Oct 152007: Nov 72008: Oct 282009: Oct 182010: Oct 302011: Nov 10

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
2012Mar 11no dataMar 6no data
2011Apr 2Nov 10Mar 27Nov 11
2010Mar 27Oct 30Mar 7Nov 6
2009Apr 9Oct 18Mar 14Dec 4
2008Mar 25Oct 28Mar 12Nov 10
2007Apr 14Nov 7Apr 10Nov 16
2006Mar 27Oct 15Mar 23Nov 3
2005Mar 30no dataMar 30no data
2004no dataNov 13no dataNov 25
2003Apr 7Nov 7Mar 31Nov 8
2002Apr 6Oct 14Apr 5Nov 2
2001no dataOct 7no dataDec 10

"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.