Frost history / Hartford, ME
Hartford, ME: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00173570, 1998 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 705 ft, 44.374, -70.316. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 13 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 21 (2014) | Sep 19 (2008) |
| Latest | Jun 1 (2020) | Oct 29 (2021) |
| Trend | 5.2 days earlier per decade | 4.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 24 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 | Apr 21 | Oct 10 | Apr 11 | Oct 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 | Apr 27 | Oct 28 |
| 2023 | May 18 | Oct 24 | May 18 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | May 9 | Oct 3 | Apr 22 | Oct 11 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Oct 29 | Apr 23 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | Jun 1 | Sep 20 | Apr 24 | Sep 21 |
| 2019 | May 9 | Sep 19 | Apr 18 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | May 13 | Oct 14 | Apr 18 | Oct 19 |
| 2017 | May 10 | Oct 12 | Apr 4 | Oct 18 |
| 2016 | May 9 | Oct 15 | Apr 30 | Oct 15 |
| 2015 | May 23 | Oct 5 | Apr 10 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | Apr 21 | Sep 19 | Apr 21 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | May 14 | Oct 23 | Apr 26 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 30 | Sep 20 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 |
| 2011 | Apr 24 | Oct 6 | Apr 17 | Oct 7 |
| 2010 | May 13 | Oct 10 | May 12 | Oct 30 |
| 2009 | May 26 | Sep 26 | Apr 20 | Sep 26 |
| 2008 | May 3 | Sep 19 | May 2 | Oct 18 |
| 2007 | May 14 | Oct 26 | Apr 14 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | May 8 | Oct 6 | Apr 29 | Oct 7 |
| 2005 | May 13 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 2004 | May 31 | Oct 4 | May 8 | Oct 6 |
| 2003 | May 17 | Oct 3 | Apr 19 | Oct 7 |
| 2002 | May 21 | Oct 4 | May 20 | Oct 9 |
| 2001 | May 8 | Oct 1 | Apr 30 | Oct 9 |
| 2000 | May 21 | Sep 27 | May 20 | Sep 29 |
| 1999 | May 17 | Oct 6 | Apr 25 | Oct 8 |
| 1998 | no data | Sep 24 | no data | Oct 6 |
"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.