Last Frost Day

Frost history / E Surry, ME

E Surry, ME: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00172443, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 105 ft, 44.493, -68.458. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 12Oct 6
EarliestApr 19 (2017)Sep 19 (2014)
LatestJun 1 (2020)Oct 31 (2023)
Trend3.1 days later per decade4.6 days later per decade
Years with data1415

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.

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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 1420202012: May 72013: May 152014: May 292015: May 22016: May 102017: Apr 192018: May 192019: May 122020: Jun 12021: May 82022: May 92023: May 232024: May 122025: May 12

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120202011: Oct 62012: Oct 132013: Oct 242014: Sep 192015: Oct 172016: Oct 52017: Oct 32018: Sep 252019: Oct 32020: Sep 202021: Oct 242022: Oct 32023: Oct 312024: Oct 162025: Oct 10

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025May 12Oct 10Apr 21Nov 2
2024May 12Oct 16Apr 27Oct 28
2023May 23Oct 31May 18Oct 31
2022May 9Oct 3Apr 25Oct 9
2021May 8Oct 24Apr 16Nov 4
2020Jun 1Sep 20May 14Oct 13
2019May 12Oct 3May 9Nov 2
2018May 19Sep 25Apr 23Oct 18
2017Apr 19Oct 3Apr 15Nov 8
2016May 10Oct 5Apr 30Oct 15
2015May 2Oct 17May 2Oct 18
2014May 29Sep 19Apr 20Nov 3
2013May 15Oct 24Apr 23Oct 26
2012May 7Oct 13Apr 29Oct 13
2011no dataOct 6no dataOct 28

"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.