Last Frost Day

Frost history / Ann Arbor Se, MI

Ann Arbor Se, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00200228, 2003 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 832 ft, 42.242, -83.693. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 6Oct 15
EarliestApr 16 (2019)Sep 19 (2020)
LatestMay 28 (2008)Oct 26 (2017)
Trend8.0 days earlier per decade4.6 days later per decade
Years with data2223

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 and the median first fall date is Oct 22.

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 14201020202004: May 52005: May 62006: May 232007: May 132008: May 282009: May 182010: May 102011: May 42012: Apr 302013: May 132014: Apr 272015: Apr 292016: Apr 242017: May 102018: Apr 302019: Apr 162020: May 142021: May 62022: Apr 292023: May 182024: Apr 262025: Apr 18

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202003: Oct 22004: Oct 32005: Oct 172006: Oct 132007: Oct 132008: Oct 42009: Oct 12010: Oct 192011: Oct 222012: Oct 82013: Oct 222014: Oct 112015: Oct 172016: Oct 142017: Oct 262018: Oct 152019: Oct 152020: Sep 192021: Oct 242022: Oct 82023: Oct 232024: Oct 172025: Oct 25

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

"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.