Last Frost Day

Frost history / Lapeer 2W, MI

Lapeer 2W, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00204659, 2007 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 837 ft, 43.058, -83.361. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 9Oct 17
EarliestApr 19 (2011)Sep 19 (2020)
LatestMay 28 (2008)Oct 28 (2007)
Trend3.3 days earlier per decade4.3 days earlier per decade
Years with data1919

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.

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 30Jun 14201020202007: May 132008: May 282009: May 182010: May 102011: Apr 192012: Apr 292013: May 132014: Apr 272015: May 232016: Apr 272017: May 92018: Apr 302019: Apr 292020: May 132021: May 112022: Apr 292023: May 262024: Apr 262025: May 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202007: Oct 282008: Oct 222009: Oct 12010: Oct 222011: Oct 222012: Oct 82013: Oct 242014: Oct 112015: Oct 172016: Oct 102017: Oct 262018: Oct 162019: Oct 152020: Sep 192021: Oct 242022: Oct 32023: Oct 232024: Oct 172025: Oct 9

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
2025May 9Oct 9Apr 17Oct 26
2024Apr 26Oct 17Apr 25Oct 27
2023May 26Oct 23Apr 27Oct 31
2022Apr 29Oct 3Apr 29Oct 21
2021May 11Oct 24May 1Nov 3
2020May 13Sep 19May 13Oct 16
2019Apr 29Oct 15Apr 4Oct 26
2018Apr 30Oct 16Apr 29Oct 18
2017May 9Oct 26May 9Oct 26
2016Apr 27Oct 10Apr 27Nov 12
2015May 23Oct 17Apr 24Oct 18
2014Apr 27Oct 11Apr 27Oct 12
2013May 13Oct 24Apr 26Oct 24
2012Apr 29Oct 8Apr 29Oct 8
2011Apr 19Oct 22Apr 13Oct 28
2010May 10Oct 22Apr 23Nov 1
2009May 18Oct 1Apr 13Oct 11
2008May 28Oct 22Apr 30Oct 23
2007May 13Oct 28Apr 14Nov 2

"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.