Last Frost Day

Frost history / Leverett #2, MA

Leverett #2, MA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00194154, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 315 ft, 42.447, -72.530. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 1Oct 13
EarliestApr 21 (2025)Oct 5 (2019)
LatestMay 18 (2023)Oct 31 (2023)
Trend7.3 days earlier per decade4.7 days later per decade
Years with data1516

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 23 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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 30201020202010: May 142011: May 62012: May 12013: May 162014: May 72015: Apr 252016: May 112017: May 42018: Apr 242019: Apr 292021: Apr 272022: May 12023: May 182024: Apr 272025: Apr 21

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202010: Oct 102011: Oct 62012: Oct 132013: Oct 232014: Oct 62015: Oct 142016: Oct 112017: Oct 172018: Oct 182019: Oct 52020: Oct 182021: Oct 242022: Oct 92023: Oct 312024: Oct 152025: 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
2025Apr 21Oct 10Apr 18Oct 10
2024Apr 27Oct 15Apr 23Oct 17
2023May 18Oct 31May 18Nov 2
2022May 1Oct 9Apr 30Oct 29
2021Apr 27Oct 24Apr 5Nov 3
2020no dataOct 18no dataOct 31
2019Apr 29Oct 5Apr 11Nov 2
2018Apr 24Oct 18Apr 23Oct 19
2017May 4Oct 17Apr 9Nov 9
2016May 11Oct 11Apr 15Oct 26
2015Apr 25Oct 14Apr 25Oct 18
2014May 7Oct 6Apr 25Nov 8
2013May 16Oct 23Apr 22Oct 24
2012May 1Oct 13May 1Oct 13
2011May 6Oct 6Apr 22Oct 28
2010May 14Oct 10May 12Oct 30

"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.