Frost history / Cass City 1 Ssw, MI
Cass City 1 Ssw, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00201361, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 698 ft, 43.586, -83.180. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 14 | Oct 9 |
| Earliest | Apr 21 (2011) | Sep 15 (2011) |
| Latest | May 28 (2008) | Oct 27 (2007) |
| Trend | 2.8 days earlier per decade | 2.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 20 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.
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 | May 20 | Oct 26 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 |
| 2024 | Apr 27 | Oct 9 | Apr 26 | Oct 27 |
| 2023 | May 19 | Oct 12 | Apr 27 | Oct 12 |
| 2022 | Apr 30 | Oct 3 | Apr 30 | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | May 14 | Oct 24 | May 2 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 14 | Sep 19 | May 14 | Oct 31 |
| 2019 | May 14 | Oct 15 | Apr 5 | Oct 26 |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 16 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 |
| 2017 | May 10 | Oct 26 | May 9 | Oct 26 |
| 2016 | May 18 | Oct 10 | Apr 28 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | May 18 | Oct 7 | Apr 30 | Oct 8 |
| 2011 | Apr 21 | Sep 15 | Apr 18 | Oct 3 |
| 2010 | May 10 | Oct 15 | May 9 | Oct 31 |
| 2009 | May 18 | Sep 30 | Apr 16 | Oct 10 |
| 2008 | May 28 | Oct 6 | Apr 30 | Oct 21 |
| 2007 | May 20 | Oct 27 | Apr 15 | Nov 1 |
| 2006 | May 22 | Oct 6 | Apr 28 | Oct 25 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 19 | May 3 | Oct 28 |
| 2004 | May 4 | Oct 2 | May 3 | Oct 4 |
| 2002 | May 24 | no data | May 20 | no data |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 7 |
"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.