Frost history / Gaylord 9SSW, MI
Gaylord 9SSW, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00203099, 1998 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,468 ft, 44.907, -84.719. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 15 | Oct 7 |
| Earliest | Apr 17 (2007) | Sep 16 (2011) |
| Latest | Jun 3 (2013) | Oct 22 (2023) |
| Trend | 1.3 days earlier per decade | 4.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 28 and the median first fall date is Oct 24.
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 8 | Oct 9 | Apr 20 | Nov 2 |
| 2024 | Apr 26 | Oct 15 | Apr 25 | Nov 2 |
| 2023 | May 17 | Oct 22 | Apr 26 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 29 | Sep 29 | Apr 28 | Nov 12 |
| 2021 | May 11 | Oct 22 | Apr 26 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 31 | Oct 2 | May 13 | Oct 19 |
| 2019 | May 11 | Oct 17 | Apr 28 | Oct 26 |
| 2018 | May 11 | Oct 5 | Apr 29 | Oct 18 |
| 2017 | May 9 | Oct 16 | May 9 | Oct 26 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Oct 21 | Apr 13 | Oct 26 |
| 2015 | May 22 | Oct 16 | May 20 | Nov 20 |
| 2014 | May 17 | Oct 18 | Apr 27 | Oct 19 |
| 2013 | Jun 3 | Oct 20 | May 13 | Oct 23 |
| 2012 | May 17 | Oct 6 | Apr 28 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | May 16 | Sep 16 | Apr 24 | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | May 10 | Oct 3 | May 10 | Oct 5 |
| 2009 | May 31 | Oct 1 | May 11 | Oct 11 |
| 2008 | May 28 | Oct 3 | May 28 | Oct 22 |
| 2007 | Apr 17 | Oct 12 | Apr 16 | Oct 25 |
| 2006 | May 22 | Sep 29 | May 6 | Oct 12 |
| 2005 | May 13 | Oct 9 | May 13 | Oct 28 |
| 2004 | May 4 | Oct 5 | Apr 28 | Nov 8 |
| 2003 | May 21 | Oct 1 | Apr 27 | Oct 2 |
| 2002 | May 25 | Oct 8 | May 19 | Oct 14 |
| 2001 | May 13 | Sep 26 | Apr 19 | Oct 7 |
| 2000 | May 20 | Sep 28 | Apr 17 | Sep 28 |
| 1999 | Apr 24 | Oct 3 | Apr 20 | Oct 3 |
| 1998 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Oct 22 |
"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.