Last Frost Day

Frost history / Attica 2E, IN

Attica 2E, IN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00120331, 1991 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 727 ft, 40.284, -87.196. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 19Oct 11
EarliestMar 28 (1999)Sep 20 (1991)
LatestMay 17 (2009)Oct 28 (2005)
Trend6.0 days later per decade4.9 days later per decade
Years with data1919

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Oct 22.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30200020101992: Apr 291993: Apr 221994: Apr 81995: Apr 61996: Apr 271997: May 161998: Apr 51999: Mar 282000: Apr 132001: Apr 192002: Apr 232003: Apr 132004: Apr 142005: May 42006: Apr 102007: Apr 152008: Apr 302009: May 172010: Apr 29

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11200020101991: Sep 201992: Oct 171993: Sep 301994: Oct 251995: Sep 231996: Oct 111997: Oct 151998: Oct 231999: Sep 222000: Oct 72001: Oct 72002: Oct 142003: Oct 22004: Oct 52005: Oct 282007: Oct 142008: Oct 222009: Oct 112010: Oct 6

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
2010Apr 29Oct 6Mar 28Oct 22
2009May 17Oct 11Apr 8Oct 19
2008Apr 30Oct 22Apr 15Oct 28
2007Apr 15Oct 14Apr 11Nov 7
2006Apr 10no dataApr 10no data
2005May 4Oct 28Mar 25Nov 17
2004Apr 14Oct 5Apr 5Nov 13
2003Apr 13Oct 2Apr 7Oct 2
2002Apr 23Oct 14Apr 7Oct 14
2001Apr 19Oct 7Apr 18Oct 28
2000Apr 13Oct 7Apr 12Oct 9
1999Mar 28Sep 22Mar 27Oct 25
1998Apr 5Oct 23Mar 25Nov 5
1997May 16Oct 15Apr 18Oct 22
1996Apr 27Oct 11Apr 14Oct 20
1995Apr 6Sep 23Apr 6Sep 23
1994Apr 8Oct 25Apr 8Nov 22
1993Apr 22Sep 30Apr 4Nov 1
1992Apr 29Oct 17Apr 5Oct 19
1991no dataSep 20no dataOct 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.