Frost history / Lake Villa 2NE, IL
Lake Villa 2NE, IL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00114837, 1987 to 2005, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 840 ft, 42.431, -88.059. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 25 | Oct 11 |
| Earliest | Apr 12 (2000) | Sep 23 (1995) |
| Latest | May 21 (2002) | Oct 28 (2005) |
| Trend | 1.9 days later per decade | 3.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 17 | 19 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | May 3 | Oct 5 | Apr 13 | Nov 8 |
| 2003 | Apr 24 | Oct 2 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 |
| 2002 | May 21 | Oct 20 | Apr 6 | Oct 31 |
| 2001 | Apr 18 | Oct 6 | Apr 18 | Oct 7 |
| 2000 | Apr 12 | Oct 7 | Apr 12 | Nov 11 |
| 1999 | Apr 25 | Oct 23 | Mar 27 | Oct 24 |
| 1998 | Apr 27 | Oct 22 | Mar 24 | Nov 6 |
| 1997 | Apr 22 | Oct 15 | Apr 18 | Oct 27 |
| 1996 | Apr 27 | Oct 11 | Apr 10 | Oct 30 |
| 1995 | Apr 14 | Sep 23 | Apr 5 | Nov 2 |
| 1994 | May 6 | Oct 27 | Apr 7 | Nov 19 |
| 1993 | Apr 27 | Oct 9 | Apr 17 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Apr 28 | Oct 16 | Apr 5 | Oct 17 |
| 1991 | Apr 22 | Oct 7 | Apr 2 | Oct 19 |
| 1990 | Apr 18 | Oct 18 | Apr 12 | Nov 7 |
| 1989 | May 7 | Oct 3 | May 7 | Nov 2 |
| 1988 | Apr 24 | Oct 12 | Apr 21 | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 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.