Frost history / Fife Lake 2WNW, MI
Fife Lake 2WNW, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00202783, 2012 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,052 ft, 44.585, -85.365. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 23 | Oct 11 |
| Earliest | Apr 27 (2024) | Sep 18 (2020) |
| Latest | Jun 3 (2019) | Oct 25 (2016) |
| Trend | 4.1 days earlier per decade | 5.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 14 and the median first fall date is Oct 21.
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 | Jun 2 | Oct 9 | May 10 | Oct 26 |
| 2024 | Apr 27 | Oct 9 | Apr 25 | Oct 28 |
| 2023 | May 18 | Oct 12 | May 18 | Oct 23 |
| 2022 | May 24 | Sep 29 | Apr 28 | Oct 10 |
| 2021 | May 31 | Oct 24 | May 29 | Nov 2 |
| 2020 | Jun 1 | Sep 18 | May 14 | Oct 16 |
| 2019 | Jun 3 | Oct 14 | Apr 29 | Oct 18 |
| 2018 | May 12 | Oct 16 | May 12 | Oct 16 |
| 2017 | May 20 | Oct 17 | May 10 | Oct 26 |
| 2016 | May 19 | Oct 25 | May 15 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | May 23 | Oct 2 | May 23 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | May 18 | Oct 12 | May 18 | Oct 19 |
| 2013 | Jun 3 | Sep 23 | May 25 | Oct 23 |
| 2012 | no data | Sep 24 | no data | Oct 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.