Last Frost Day

Frost history / Paulding, MI

Paulding, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00206398, 2014 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,367 ft, 46.398, -89.179. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianJun 4Sep 18
EarliestMay 18 (2014)Sep 8 (2017)
LatestJun 14 (2020)Oct 9 (2016)
Trend9.0 days later per decade4.4 days later per decade
Years with data1212

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 20 and the median first fall date is Oct 8.

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 2920202014: May 182015: Jun 62016: Jun 92017: Jun 22018: May 212019: Jun 42020: Jun 142021: May 302022: Jun 42023: Jun 92024: Jun 112025: Jun 2

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 2720202014: Sep 122015: Sep 122016: Oct 92017: Sep 82018: Sep 222019: Oct 82020: Sep 102021: Sep 232022: Sep 232023: Sep 142024: Sep 82025: Oct 8

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
2025Jun 2Oct 8May 22Oct 8
2024Jun 11Sep 8May 15Oct 4
2023Jun 9Sep 14May 17Oct 8
2022Jun 4Sep 23May 23Oct 9
2021May 30Sep 23May 30Oct 18
2020Jun 14Sep 10May 14Sep 18
2019Jun 4Oct 8Jun 3Oct 15
2018May 21Sep 22May 20Oct 12
2017Jun 2Sep 8May 20Sep 30
2016Jun 9Oct 9May 19Oct 9
2015Jun 6Sep 12Jun 1Sep 30
2014May 18Sep 12May 17Sep 12

"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.