Frost history / Bethel 6 Sse, ME
Bethel 6 Sse, ME: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00170583, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 790 ft, 44.320, -70.757. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 8 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 18 (2025) | Sep 15 (2014) |
| Latest | Jun 1 (2020) | Oct 29 (2021) |
| Trend | 1.7 days earlier per decade | 14.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 18 and the median first fall date is Oct 21.
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 10 | Apr 11 | Oct 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 28 | Oct 18 | Apr 27 | Oct 28 |
| 2023 | May 20 | Oct 24 | Apr 8 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | May 10 | Oct 3 | Apr 22 | Oct 3 |
| 2021 | May 8 | Oct 29 | Apr 23 | Oct 29 |
| 2020 | Jun 1 | Sep 20 | Apr 24 | Sep 21 |
| 2019 | May 10 | Sep 19 | Apr 12 | Oct 6 |
| 2018 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Oct 23 |
| 2017 | May 10 | Oct 13 | Apr 15 | Nov 8 |
| 2016 | Apr 30 | Sep 26 | Apr 30 | Oct 15 |
| 2015 | May 3 | Sep 27 | Apr 18 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | no data | Sep 15 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 2013 | May 16 | no data | Apr 26 | no data |
| 2012 | May 7 | Sep 29 | Apr 14 | Nov 6 |
| 2011 | May 2 | Oct 7 | Apr 17 | Oct 7 |
"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.