Frost history / Cape Neddick, ME
Cape Neddick, ME: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00171131, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 152 ft, 43.224, -70.639. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 29 | Oct 19 |
| Earliest | Apr 20 (2017) | Oct 6 (2019) |
| Latest | May 18 (2023) | Nov 4 (2021) |
| Trend | 4.6 days later per decade | 2.4 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 18 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.
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 22 | Oct 10 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 |
| 2024 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 | Apr 27 | Oct 29 |
| 2023 | May 18 | Oct 31 | Apr 11 | Nov 12 |
| 2022 | May 10 | Oct 28 | Apr 18 | Nov 9 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 4 | Apr 5 | Nov 6 |
| 2020 | May 7 | Oct 19 | Apr 24 | Oct 31 |
| 2019 | May 9 | Oct 6 | Apr 12 | Nov 9 |
| 2018 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 2017 | Apr 20 | Nov 1 | Apr 20 | Nov 9 |
| 2016 | May 1 | Oct 15 | Apr 29 | Nov 1 |
| 2015 | Apr 26 | Oct 18 | Apr 16 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | Apr 22 | Nov 3 | Apr 21 | Nov 15 |
| 2013 | May 7 | Oct 26 | Apr 24 | Oct 29 |
| 2012 | Apr 30 | Oct 13 | Apr 8 | Oct 13 |
| 2011 | Apr 23 | Oct 28 | Apr 17 | Oct 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 to 2020 frost probabilities.