Last Frost Day

Frost history / Vassar, MI

Vassar, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00208443, 2007 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 630 ft, 43.366, -83.583. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 12Oct 5
EarliestApr 20 (2011)Sep 14 (2013)
LatestMay 31 (2021)Oct 26 (2017)
Trend0.8 days earlier per decade9.8 days later per decade
Years with data1515

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 28 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.

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 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14201020202007: May 212008: May 292009: May 192010: May 112011: Apr 202012: Apr 302013: May 262014: May 62015: May 242016: May 182017: May 102018: May 72019: May 122021: May 312022: May 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202007: Oct 142008: Oct 52009: Oct 12010: Oct 42011: Sep 162012: Sep 242013: Sep 142014: Sep 202015: Oct 172016: Oct 92017: Oct 262018: Oct 162019: Oct 152020: Sep 192021: Oct 24

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
2022May 8no dataApr 30no data
2021May 31Oct 24May 2Nov 3
2020no dataSep 19no dataOct 16
2019May 12Oct 15Apr 5Oct 15
2018May 7Oct 16Apr 30Oct 18
2017May 10Oct 26May 9Oct 26
2016May 18Oct 9Apr 28Oct 26
2015May 24Oct 17Apr 27Oct 18
2014May 6Sep 20Apr 28Oct 11
2013May 26Sep 14Apr 28Oct 24
2012Apr 30Sep 24Apr 30Oct 8
2011Apr 20Sep 16Apr 14Oct 28
2010May 11Oct 4May 10Oct 19
2009May 19Oct 1Apr 18Oct 11
2008May 29Oct 5May 28Oct 22
2007May 21Oct 14Apr 15Oct 29

"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.