Last Frost Day

Frost history / Charlevoix, MI

Charlevoix, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00201468, 1998 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 593 ft, 45.317, -85.267. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 28Oct 31
EarliestApr 16 (2007)Sep 28 (2000)
LatestMay 13 (2020)Nov 27 (2024)
Trend1.8 days later per decade7.2 days later per decade
Years with data2828

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.

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 302000201020201998: Apr 281999: Apr 252000: Apr 302001: Apr 192002: Apr 232003: May 32004: Apr 282005: May 122006: Apr 282007: Apr 162008: Apr 282009: May 112010: May 102011: Apr 242012: Apr 292013: Apr 252014: May 62015: Apr 262016: Apr 232017: May 92018: Apr 302019: May 82020: May 132021: May 12022: Apr 282023: Apr 272024: Apr 252025: May 2

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201998: Nov 41999: Nov 112000: Sep 282001: Oct 82002: Oct 142003: Nov 72004: Nov 92005: Oct 282006: Oct 132007: Nov 82008: Oct 222009: Oct 142010: Nov 12011: Oct 282012: Nov 52013: Oct 292014: Oct 222015: Nov 222016: Nov 202017: Nov 52018: Oct 222019: Oct 262020: Oct 302021: Nov 42022: Nov 132023: Oct 312024: Nov 272025: Nov 9

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 2Nov 9Apr 17Nov 10
2024Apr 25Nov 27Apr 25Dec 1
2023Apr 27Oct 31Apr 8Nov 20
2022Apr 28Nov 13Apr 28Nov 15
2021May 1Nov 4Apr 22Nov 26
2020May 13Oct 30May 13Oct 31
2019May 8Oct 26Apr 12Nov 9
2018Apr 30Oct 22Apr 21Nov 11
2017May 9Nov 5Apr 1Nov 10
2016Apr 23Nov 20Apr 13Dec 8
2015Apr 26Nov 22Apr 24Nov 22
2014May 6Oct 22Apr 19Nov 2
2013Apr 25Oct 29Apr 22Oct 29
2012Apr 29Nov 5Apr 7Nov 6
2011Apr 24Oct 28Apr 21Nov 22
2010May 10Nov 1Mar 27Nov 6
2009May 11Oct 14Apr 13Dec 4
2008Apr 28Oct 22Apr 15Oct 22
2007Apr 16Nov 8Apr 14Nov 18
2006Apr 28Oct 13Apr 10Nov 21
2005May 12Oct 28Mar 27Nov 17
2004Apr 28Nov 9Apr 12Nov 12
2003May 3Nov 7Apr 13Nov 8
2002Apr 23Oct 14Apr 22Nov 7
2001Apr 19Oct 8Apr 5Dec 8
2000Apr 30Sep 28Apr 12Nov 19
1999Apr 25Nov 11Mar 27Nov 30
1998Apr 28Nov 4Apr 6Dec 8

"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.