Frost history / Hale 5SSW #2, MI
Hale 5SSW #2, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00203528, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 816 ft, 44.312, -83.838. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 21 | Sep 27 |
| Earliest | May 12 (2024) | Sep 8 (2025) |
| Latest | Jun 22 (2021) | Oct 17 (2021) |
| Trend | 0.8 days earlier per decade | 1.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 9 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.
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 | Sep 8 | May 9 | Oct 9 |
| 2024 | May 12 | Oct 5 | Apr 27 | Oct 9 |
| 2023 | May 27 | Sep 20 | May 26 | Oct 23 |
| 2022 | May 23 | Sep 23 | May 8 | Sep 29 |
| 2021 | Jun 22 | Oct 17 | May 13 | Oct 24 |
| 2020 | May 13 | Sep 19 | May 13 | Sep 19 |
| 2019 | May 22 | Oct 5 | May 11 | Oct 15 |
| 2018 | May 13 | Oct 16 | Apr 30 | Oct 16 |
| 2017 | May 20 | Sep 30 | May 9 | Oct 26 |
| 2016 | May 23 | Oct 10 | Apr 30 | Oct 26 |
| 2015 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 17 |
| 2013 | Jun 3 | Sep 14 | Apr 26 | Oct 20 |
| 2012 | May 17 | Sep 19 | May 17 | Oct 7 |
| 2011 | no data | Sep 16 | 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.