Garrett, IN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00123206, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 880 ft, 41.341, -85.129. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 28	Oct 22
Earliest	Apr 4 (2011)	Oct 2 (2009)
Latest	May 13 (2020)	Nov 12 (2016)
Trend	0.9 days later per decade	4.7 days later per decade
Years with data	17	17

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 17 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
2025	Apr 18	Oct 25	Apr 12	Nov 2
2024	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 7	Nov 2
2023	Apr 28	Oct 23	Apr 27	Oct 31
2022	Apr 29	Oct 9	Apr 20	Oct 18
2021	May 10	Oct 27	Apr 23	Nov 3
2020	May 13	Oct 16	May 10	Oct 31
2019	Apr 15	Nov 1	Apr 2	Nov 1
2018	May 1	Oct 16	Apr 21	Oct 18
2017	May 9	Oct 26	Apr 9	Nov 8
2016	Apr 14	Nov 12	Apr 11	Nov 12
2015	Apr 28	Oct 18	Apr 25	Oct 18
2014	Apr 23	Oct 12	Apr 17	Nov 2
2013	May 13	Oct 22	Apr 21	Oct 28
2012	Apr 28	Oct 8	Apr 28	Nov 3
2011	Apr 4	Oct 22	Apr 3	Oct 30
2010	May 11	Oct 22	Apr 10	Oct 22
2009	Apr 24	Oct 2	Apr 12	Oct 18

"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.