Frost history / Pickford 3NE, MI
Pickford 3NE, MI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00206583, 2006 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 629 ft, 46.186, -84.324. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jun 3 | Sep 15 |
| Earliest | May 17 (2010) | Aug 31 (2009) |
| Latest | Jun 13 (2012) | Oct 8 (2025) |
| Trend | 2.3 days earlier per decade | 13.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 9.
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 | Jun 2 | Oct 8 | May 11 | Oct 8 |
| 2024 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 10 |
| 2023 | no data | Sep 19 | no data | Oct 12 |
| 2015 | Jun 2 | no data | May 23 | no data |
| 2014 | May 18 | Sep 16 | May 17 | Oct 11 |
| 2013 | Jun 4 | Sep 14 | May 25 | Oct 14 |
| 2012 | Jun 13 | Sep 19 | May 31 | Sep 27 |
| 2011 | Jun 3 | Sep 6 | May 27 | Sep 17 |
| 2010 | May 17 | Sep 19 | May 11 | Oct 3 |
| 2009 | Jun 6 | Aug 31 | May 31 | Oct 1 |
| 2008 | May 28 | Sep 10 | May 28 | Oct 17 |
| 2007 | Jun 6 | Sep 13 | Jun 6 | Oct 12 |
| 2006 | Jun 11 | Sep 10 | Jun 10 | Oct 6 |
"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.