Frost history / Mc Henry -Wg Stratton L&D, IL
Mc Henry -Wg Stratton L&D, IL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00115493, 1993 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 736 ft, 42.309, -88.253. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 28 | Oct 11 |
| Earliest | Apr 16 (2007) | Sep 19 (2012) |
| Latest | May 30 (2021) | Oct 28 (2007) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 3.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 28 | 32 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 20 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.
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 | May 10 | Oct 24 | Apr 16 | Oct 24 |
| 2024 | Apr 25 | Oct 16 | Apr 25 | Oct 17 |
| 2023 | Apr 27 | Oct 11 | Apr 27 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 27 | Oct 8 | Apr 27 | Oct 19 |
| 2021 | May 30 | Oct 22 | May 12 | Nov 2 |
| 2020 | May 13 | Oct 5 | May 9 | Oct 28 |
| 2019 | Apr 28 | Oct 14 | Apr 28 | Oct 26 |
| 2018 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 | Apr 29 | Oct 18 |
| 2017 | May 10 | Oct 26 | Mar 23 | Nov 7 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Oct 13 | Apr 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | May 1 | Oct 17 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 |
| 2014 | Apr 23 | Oct 11 | Apr 16 | Oct 19 |
| 2013 | May 13 | Oct 14 | Apr 20 | Oct 22 |
| 2012 | Apr 27 | Sep 19 | Apr 27 | Oct 8 |
| 2011 | Apr 29 | Oct 2 | Apr 21 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | Apr 28 | Oct 4 | Apr 9 | Oct 22 |
| 2009 | Apr 22 | Oct 10 | Apr 17 | Oct 10 |
| 2008 | Apr 30 | Oct 4 | Apr 30 | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 16 | Oct 28 | Apr 16 | Oct 28 |
| 2006 | Apr 26 | Oct 12 | Apr 26 | Oct 12 |
| 2005 | May 5 | Oct 23 | Apr 3 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 5 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 1 | no data | Oct 2 |
| 2002 | May 21 | no data | May 21 | no data |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 2000 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 1999 | Apr 25 | Oct 14 | Mar 27 | Oct 18 |
| 1998 | Apr 28 | Oct 14 | Apr 5 | Oct 22 |
| 1997 | Apr 28 | Oct 15 | Apr 18 | Oct 15 |
| 1996 | May 13 | Oct 3 | Apr 17 | Oct 11 |
| 1995 | Apr 24 | Sep 23 | Apr 14 | Sep 23 |
| 1994 | May 27 | Oct 10 | Apr 22 | Oct 27 |
| 1993 | no data | Sep 30 | no data | Sep 30 |
"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.