Frost history / Wheatfield, IN
Wheatfield, IN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00129511, 1951 to 2004, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 665 ft, 41.195, -87.058. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 2 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 15 (1964) | Sep 13 (1964) |
| Latest | May 28 (1971) | Oct 23 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.0 days earlier per decade | 2.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 34 | 34 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 23 and the median first fall date is Oct 15.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | May 3 | no data | May 3 | no data |
| 2003 | Apr 27 | Oct 2 | Apr 23 | Oct 2 |
| 2002 | May 21 | Oct 14 | Apr 23 | Oct 14 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | Apr 27 | Oct 7 | Apr 13 | Oct 9 |
| 1999 | Apr 25 | Oct 5 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 | Apr 6 | Nov 7 |
| 1997 | Apr 28 | Oct 15 | Apr 26 | Oct 15 |
| 1996 | no data | Oct 11 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 1990 | May 2 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
| 1982 | Apr 28 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 1979 | May 1 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1978 | May 3 | Oct 8 | May 2 | Oct 17 |
| 1976 | May 12 | Sep 24 | May 8 | Oct 16 |
| 1974 | no data | Sep 23 | no data | Sep 23 |
| 1973 | May 17 | Oct 18 | Apr 28 | Nov 5 |
| 1972 | Apr 26 | Oct 9 | Apr 26 | Oct 19 |
| 1971 | May 28 | Oct 12 | Apr 30 | Nov 1 |
| 1970 | May 6 | Sep 29 | Apr 10 | Oct 17 |
| 1969 | Apr 30 | Oct 15 | Apr 30 | Oct 15 |
| 1968 | May 6 | Oct 4 | May 6 | Oct 5 |
| 1967 | May 3 | Oct 12 | Apr 28 | Oct 12 |
| 1966 | May 11 | Sep 16 | May 10 | Oct 6 |
| 1965 | Apr 29 | Oct 5 | Apr 4 | Oct 5 |
| 1964 | Apr 15 | Sep 13 | Apr 9 | Oct 7 |
| 1963 | May 23 | Oct 5 | May 1 | Oct 30 |
| 1962 | Apr 20 | Sep 21 | Apr 20 | Oct 24 |
| 1961 | no data | Sep 29 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 1960 | May 13 | Oct 1 | Apr 11 | Oct 20 |
| 1959 | Apr 23 | Sep 17 | Apr 22 | Sep 18 |
| 1958 | May 7 | Oct 1 | Apr 30 | Oct 1 |
| 1957 | May 6 | Sep 24 | Apr 16 | Sep 28 |
| 1956 | May 24 | Sep 20 | Apr 24 | Oct 10 |
| 1955 | May 18 | Oct 22 | Apr 8 | Oct 25 |
| 1954 | May 21 | Sep 23 | May 10 | Oct 7 |
| 1953 | Apr 21 | Oct 7 | Apr 21 | Oct 8 |
| 1952 | Apr 25 | Sep 27 | Apr 16 | Oct 3 |
| 1951 | Apr 23 | Sep 29 | Apr 23 | Sep 29 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.