Last Frost Day

Frost history / Windham 2NW, ME

Windham 2NW, ME: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00179720, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 443 ft, 43.857, -70.466. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 24Oct 29
EarliestApr 11 (2023)Oct 14 (2012)
LatestApr 30 (2016)Nov 13 (2014)
Trend5.7 days earlier per decade6.0 days later per decade
Years with data1415

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1520202011: Apr 222012: Apr 292014: Apr 212015: Apr 242016: Apr 302017: Apr 162018: Apr 242019: Apr 182020: Apr 242021: Apr 232022: Apr 242023: Apr 112024: Apr 272025: Apr 11

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202011: Oct 282012: Oct 142013: Oct 292014: Nov 132015: Oct 182016: Oct 282017: Nov 82018: Oct 192019: Nov 22020: Oct 252021: Nov 32022: Nov 92023: Nov 12024: Oct 292025: Nov 3

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
2025Apr 11Nov 3Apr 11Nov 19
2024Apr 27Oct 29Apr 25Nov 14
2023Apr 11Nov 1Apr 10Nov 12
2022Apr 24Nov 9Apr 4Nov 15
2021Apr 23Nov 3Apr 5Nov 5
2020Apr 24Oct 25Apr 23Oct 31
2019Apr 18Nov 2Apr 12Nov 8
2018Apr 24Oct 19Apr 17Nov 12
2017Apr 16Nov 8Apr 1Nov 8
2016Apr 30Oct 28Apr 11Nov 1
2015Apr 24Oct 18Apr 10Nov 18
2014Apr 21Nov 13Apr 19Nov 15
2013no dataOct 29no dataOct 29
2012Apr 29Oct 14Apr 2Nov 6
2011Apr 22Oct 28Apr 16Nov 22

"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.