Last Frost Day

Frost history / Milan Wwtp, MI

Milan Wwtp, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00205451, 2005 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 680 ft, 42.081, -83.677. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 28Oct 21
EarliestApr 3 (2019)Oct 8 (2012)
LatestMay 13 (2020)Nov 3 (2019)
Trend1.2 days earlier per decade5.4 days later per decade
Years with data1412

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202005: May 62006: Apr 272007: Apr 152008: Apr 302009: Apr 242010: Apr 292011: Apr 212012: Apr 302013: May 132014: Apr 182015: Apr 242018: Apr 302019: Apr 32020: May 13

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202006: Oct 132007: Oct 282008: Oct 192009: Oct 112010: Nov 12011: Oct 222012: Oct 82013: Oct 222014: Oct 192017: Oct 262018: Oct 162019: Nov 3

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
2020May 13no dataMay 9no data
2019Apr 3Nov 3Apr 2Nov 6
2018Apr 30Oct 16Apr 20Oct 18
2017no dataOct 26no dataNov 8
2015Apr 24no dataApr 24no data
2014Apr 18Oct 19Apr 17Nov 2
2013May 13Oct 22Apr 21Nov 12
2012Apr 30Oct 8Apr 30Nov 4
2011Apr 21Oct 22Apr 4Oct 30
2010Apr 29Nov 1Apr 9Nov 1
2009Apr 24Oct 11Apr 12Nov 6
2008Apr 30Oct 19Apr 4Oct 30
2007Apr 15Oct 28Apr 11Nov 19
2006Apr 27Oct 13Apr 10Oct 26
2005May 6no dataMay 4no data

"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.