Frost history / Battle Creek 3NE, IA
Battle Creek 3NE, IA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00130512, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,380 ft, 42.370, -95.575. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 3 | Oct 7 |
| Earliest | Apr 13 (2016) | Sep 13 (2014) |
| Latest | May 22 (2022) | Oct 22 (2025) |
| Trend | 2.0 days later per decade | 17.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 13.
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 3 | Oct 22 | Apr 11 | Oct 23 |
| 2024 | Apr 24 | Oct 7 | Apr 21 | Oct 14 |
| 2023 | May 3 | Oct 7 | May 3 | Oct 10 |
| 2022 | May 22 | Sep 28 | Apr 27 | Oct 8 |
| 2021 | May 12 | Oct 17 | Apr 22 | Oct 22 |
| 2020 | May 9 | Oct 2 | Apr 21 | Oct 2 |
| 2019 | May 13 | Oct 12 | Apr 28 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 28 | Oct 11 | Apr 20 | Oct 15 |
| 2017 | May 2 | Oct 11 | Apr 12 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Apr 13 | Oct 13 | Apr 12 | Oct 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 29 | Oct 15 | Apr 22 | Oct 25 |
| 2014 | May 17 | Sep 13 | May 17 | Oct 11 |
| 2013 | May 13 | Sep 21 | May 12 | Oct 13 |
| 2012 | Apr 23 | Sep 18 | Apr 23 | Sep 23 |
| 2011 | May 6 | Sep 15 | May 4 | Sep 23 |
"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.