Last Frost Day

Frost history / Jacobsville, MI

Jacobsville, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00204161, 2009 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 650 ft, 47.008, -88.432. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 31Sep 30
EarliestMay 17 (2010)Sep 12 (2014)
LatestJun 18 (2013)Oct 18 (2021)
Trend1.0 days earlier per decade14.1 days later per decade
Years with data1213

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 14.

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)

Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29201020202010: May 172011: May 282012: Jun 22013: Jun 182014: Jun 102015: Jun 62016: May 202017: May 212018: May 212019: Jun 32020: May 312021: May 31

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27201020202009: Oct 12010: Sep 152011: Sep 162012: Sep 272013: Sep 162014: Sep 122015: Sep 302016: Oct 92017: Sep 302018: Sep 302019: Oct 52020: Sep 182021: Oct 18

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
2021May 31Oct 18May 30Oct 27
2020May 31Sep 18May 14Sep 18
2019Jun 3Oct 5May 13Oct 18
2018May 21Sep 30May 13Oct 13
2017May 21Sep 30May 19Oct 26
2016May 20Oct 9May 17Oct 14
2015Jun 6Sep 30Jun 3Oct 17
2014Jun 10Sep 12May 7Oct 11
2013Jun 18Sep 16May 24Oct 17
2012Jun 2Sep 27Apr 30Oct 12
2011May 28Sep 16May 28Oct 23
2010May 17Sep 15May 11Oct 3
2009no dataOct 1no dataOct 1

"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.