Frost history / Lawrenceville 2WSW, IL
Lawrenceville 2WSW, IL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00114957, 1991 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 451 ft, 38.724, -87.720. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 8 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Mar 25 (1998) | Oct 3 (2003) |
| Latest | Apr 29 (2018) | Nov 11 (2011) |
| Trend | 3.1 days later per decade | 1.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 22 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.
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 | Apr 9 | Oct 25 | Mar 21 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 6 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Nov 27 |
| 2023 | Apr 24 | Oct 31 | Apr 24 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 19 | Oct 9 | Apr 2 | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 3 | Apr 3 | Nov 3 |
| 2018 | Apr 29 | no data | Apr 17 | no data |
| 2017 | Apr 8 | Oct 26 | Mar 19 | Oct 31 |
| 2016 | Apr 12 | Nov 10 | Apr 9 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 2011 | Apr 2 | Nov 11 | Mar 28 | Dec 1 |
| 2010 | Mar 27 | Nov 6 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 31 | Oct 18 | Mar 31 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 16 |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 13 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Dec 14 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Oct 3 | Mar 31 | Nov 8 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 27 | Apr 19 | Oct 27 |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Oct 8 | Apr 9 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 | Mar 28 | Nov 17 |
| 1998 | Mar 25 | Nov 5 | Mar 25 | Nov 5 |
| 1997 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Oct 28 |
| 1996 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 1995 | Apr 6 | no data | Apr 5 | no data |
| 1994 | Apr 8 | Oct 25 | Apr 8 | Nov 23 |
| 1993 | Apr 18 | Oct 28 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Mar 24 | Oct 19 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 16 | Mar 31 | Oct 16 |
"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.