Last Frost Day

Frost history / Andover 1N, MN

Andover 1N, MN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00210190, 2007 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 899 ft, 45.253, -93.293. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 11Oct 1
EarliestApr 24 (2012)Sep 10 (2020)
LatestMay 24 (2013)Oct 17 (2021)
Trend1.2 days earlier per decade10.1 days later per decade
Years with data1614

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 29 and the median first fall date is Oct 15.

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 30201020202008: May 222009: May 182010: May 102011: May 52012: Apr 242013: May 242014: May 42015: Apr 282016: May 162017: Apr 282018: Apr 292019: May 202020: May 132021: May 122022: May 222023: May 3

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27201020202007: Sep 122009: Sep 302010: Oct 32011: Sep 152014: Sep 132015: Oct 142016: Oct 92017: Oct 102018: Sep 292019: Oct 122020: Sep 102021: Oct 172022: Sep 282023: Oct 9

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
2023May 3Oct 9Apr 27Oct 28
2022May 22Sep 28Apr 28Sep 29
2021May 12Oct 17May 11Oct 22
2020May 13Sep 10May 12Oct 4
2019May 20Oct 12May 3Oct 25
2018Apr 29Sep 29Apr 28Oct 13
2017Apr 28Oct 10Apr 8Oct 11
2016May 16Oct 9May 16Nov 9
2015Apr 28Oct 14Apr 24Oct 17
2014May 4Sep 13Apr 19Oct 10
2013May 24no dataMay 12no data
2012Apr 24no dataApr 17no data
2011May 5Sep 15May 4Oct 21
2010May 10Oct 3May 10Oct 22
2009May 18Sep 30Apr 16Oct 9
2008May 22no dataApr 30no data
2007no dataSep 12no dataSep 15

"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.