Last Frost Day

Frost history / S Boardman 2W, MI

S Boardman 2W, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00207684, 2003 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,046 ft, 44.639, -85.325. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 29Oct 1
EarliestMay 16 (2010)Sep 6 (2011)
LatestJun 11 (2006)Oct 25 (2016)
Trend1.2 days earlier per decade9.1 days later per decade
Years with data1114

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 24 and the median first fall date is Oct 5.

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 2920102003: Jun 12005: May 172006: Jun 112007: May 182008: May 292009: Jun 42010: May 162011: May 272013: Jun 42015: Jun 22016: May 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120102003: Sep 302004: Sep 292005: Oct 82006: Sep 102007: Oct 142008: Oct 32009: Oct 12010: Sep 262011: Sep 62012: Sep 262013: Oct 142014: Oct 102015: Sep 302016: Oct 25

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
2016May 19Oct 25May 18Oct 26
2015Jun 2Sep 30May 22Oct 2
2014no dataOct 10no dataOct 19
2013Jun 4Oct 14May 25Oct 24
2012no dataSep 26no dataOct 12
2011May 27Sep 6May 27Oct 2
2010May 16Sep 26May 10Oct 3
2009Jun 4Oct 1Jun 4Oct 1
2008May 29Oct 3May 29Oct 5
2007May 18Oct 14May 13Oct 14
2006Jun 11Sep 10May 24Oct 6
2005May 17Oct 8May 17Oct 8
2004no dataSep 29no dataOct 4
2003Jun 1Sep 30Jun 1Oct 4

"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.