Frost history / Nw Michigan Rsch Farm, MI
Nw Michigan Rsch Farm, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00206012, 1998 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 820 ft, 44.883, -85.675. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 28 | Nov 2 |
| Earliest | Apr 17 (2007) | Oct 4 (2003) |
| Latest | May 20 (2002) | Nov 27 (2024) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 5.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 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 1 | Nov 10 | Apr 30 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 26 | Nov 27 | Apr 14 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | Apr 26 | Oct 31 | Apr 8 | Nov 24 |
| 2022 | Apr 29 | Nov 13 | Apr 28 | Nov 14 |
| 2021 | Apr 27 | Nov 4 | Apr 22 | Nov 22 |
| 2020 | May 13 | Oct 30 | May 9 | Nov 14 |
| 2019 | Apr 28 | Nov 1 | Apr 4 | Nov 6 |
| 2018 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 | Apr 29 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | May 9 | Nov 4 | Mar 24 | Nov 10 |
| 2016 | Apr 23 | Nov 20 | Apr 10 | Dec 8 |
| 2015 | Apr 26 | Nov 10 | Apr 24 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 27 | Nov 2 | Apr 20 | Nov 12 |
| 2013 | Apr 22 | Oct 23 | Apr 21 | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Apr 29 | Nov 6 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2011 | May 4 | Oct 28 | Apr 6 | Nov 17 |
| 2010 | May 10 | Nov 5 | Mar 27 | Nov 26 |
| 2009 | Apr 23 | Oct 11 | Apr 13 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Apr 29 | Oct 30 | Apr 14 | Nov 17 |
| 2007 | Apr 17 | Nov 7 | Apr 15 | Nov 22 |
| 2006 | May 6 | Oct 12 | Apr 9 | Dec 1 |
| 2005 | May 12 | Nov 17 | Mar 27 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Apr 28 | Nov 9 | Apr 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2003 | Apr 26 | Oct 4 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 |
| 2002 | May 20 | Oct 29 | Apr 22 | Nov 7 |
| 2001 | Apr 18 | Oct 8 | Mar 28 | Dec 22 |
| 2000 | Apr 22 | Oct 29 | Apr 13 | Nov 19 |
| 1999 | Apr 24 | Nov 3 | Mar 27 | Nov 17 |
| 1998 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 13 |
"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.