Last Frost Day

Frost history / Farmington, MI

Farmington, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00202691, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 720 ft, 42.467, -83.362. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 30Oct 19
EarliestApr 15 (2019)Oct 8 (2012)
LatestMay 18 (2023)Nov 2 (2025)
Trend2.3 days later per decade0.6 days later per decade
Years with data2121

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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 30201020202005: May 52006: Apr 282007: Apr 162008: May 12009: Apr 232010: May 92011: Apr 202012: Apr 302013: May 132014: Apr 272015: Apr 282016: May 162017: May 92018: Apr 302019: Apr 152020: May 142021: May 102022: Apr 302023: May 182024: Apr 262025: Apr 18

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202005: Oct 272006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 192009: Oct 112010: Oct 222011: Oct 222012: Oct 82013: Oct 222014: Oct 122015: Oct 172016: Oct 252017: Oct 262018: Oct 162019: Oct 152020: Oct 162021: Oct 242022: Oct 82023: Oct 232024: Oct 182025: Nov 2

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

"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.