Last Frost Day

Frost history / Hollis, ME

Hollis, ME: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00173862, 1995 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 304 ft, 43.648, -70.675. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 14Sep 29
EarliestMay 2 (2025)Sep 11 (1995)
LatestJun 4 (2002)Oct 24 (2023)
Trend3.1 days earlier per decade2.4 days later per decade
Years with data3031

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 4 and the median first fall date is Oct 12.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 142000201020201995: May 111996: May 261997: May 271998: May 151999: May 182000: May 202001: May 142002: Jun 42003: May 192005: May 142006: May 92007: May 232008: May 132009: May 272010: May 142011: May 32012: May 82013: May 162014: May 92015: May 232016: May 102017: May 102018: May 202019: May 102020: Jun 12021: May 82022: May 112023: May 182024: May 122025: May 2

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201995: Sep 111996: Sep 271997: Sep 221998: Sep 241999: Oct 52000: Sep 292001: Oct 92002: Oct 82003: Oct 32004: Oct 42005: Oct 212006: Sep 272007: Oct 142008: Sep 192009: Sep 202010: Oct 102011: Oct 62012: Sep 172013: Sep 172014: Sep 192015: Sep 272016: Sep 262017: Oct 12018: Oct 142019: Sep 192020: Sep 192021: Oct 242022: Sep 302023: Oct 242024: Oct 152025: Sep 22

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 2Sep 22Apr 22Oct 10
2024May 12Oct 15Apr 28Oct 17
2023May 18Oct 24May 18Oct 31
2022May 11Sep 30May 11Oct 21
2021May 8Oct 24Apr 27Oct 24
2020Jun 1Sep 19May 13Sep 20
2019May 10Sep 19May 10Oct 5
2018May 20Oct 14Apr 24Oct 16
2017May 10Oct 1Apr 20Oct 13
2016May 10Sep 26May 1Oct 15
2015May 23Sep 27Apr 25Oct 15
2014May 9Sep 19Apr 21Oct 13
2013May 16Sep 17May 7Oct 26
2012May 8Sep 17May 1Oct 13
2011May 3Oct 6Apr 23Oct 6
2010May 14Oct 10May 12Oct 15
2009May 27Sep 20May 1Sep 26
2008May 13Sep 19May 3Oct 18
2007May 23Oct 14Apr 27Oct 17
2006May 9Sep 27May 1Oct 7
2005May 14Oct 21May 14Oct 21
2004no dataOct 4no dataOct 6
2003May 19Oct 3May 5Oct 7
2002Jun 4Oct 8May 20Oct 9
2001May 14Oct 9May 7Oct 9
2000May 20Sep 29May 4Sep 29
1999May 18Oct 5May 13Oct 6
1998May 15Sep 24May 14Oct 5
1997May 27Sep 22May 9Oct 12
1996May 26Sep 27May 15Oct 4
1995May 11Sep 11May 7Sep 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.