Gaylord, MN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00213076, 1957 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,020 ft, 44.556, -94.221. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 28	Oct 7
Earliest	Apr 4 (1987)	Sep 15 (2007)
Latest	May 22 (1963)	Oct 29 (1963)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	1.1 days later per decade
Years with data	65	66

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 17 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.

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.

Chart

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	Apr 19	Oct 22	Apr 8	Nov 8
2024	Apr 21	Oct 15	Mar 29	Nov 1
2023	Apr 26	Oct 10	Apr 23	Oct 28
2022	Apr 27	Oct 8	Apr 27	Oct 8
2021	Apr 21	Oct 23	Apr 21	Nov 1
2020	May 12	Oct 2	Apr 21	Oct 18
2019	Apr 28	Oct 12	Apr 15	Oct 14
2018	Apr 28	Oct 4	Apr 20	Oct 12
2017	Apr 28	Oct 27	Mar 23	Oct 31
2016	May 14	Oct 13	Apr 13	Nov 19
2015	Apr 24	Oct 16	Apr 24	Oct 17
2014	Apr 19	Oct 5	Apr 18	Oct 31
2013	May 12	Oct 20	Apr 26	Oct 21
2012	Apr 13	Oct 5	Apr 12	Oct 7
2011	May 4	Oct 19	Mar 31	Oct 29
2010	Apr 10	Oct 28	Mar 27	Oct 29
2009	Apr 21	Oct 9	Apr 8	Oct 9
2008	Apr 30	Oct 16	Apr 29	Oct 28
2007	Apr 16	Sep 15	Apr 16	Oct 28
2006	Apr 9	Oct 12	Apr 9	Oct 12
2005	no data	Oct 8	no data	Oct 26
2004	no data	Oct 2	no data	Oct 2
2001	Apr 19	no data	Apr 18	no data
2000	Apr 21	Sep 25	Apr 13	Oct 6
1999	Apr 17	Oct 1	Mar 26	Oct 20
1998	Apr 18	Oct 13	Mar 26	Nov 3
1997	May 15	Oct 14	Apr 18	Oct 21
1996	May 1	Oct 3	Apr 24	Oct 28
1995	May 17	Sep 22	May 17	Oct 22
1994	May 1	Oct 26	Apr 30	Oct 26
1993	Apr 21	Sep 28	Apr 5	Oct 3
1992	Apr 27	Oct 15	Apr 18	Oct 17
1991	May 5	Sep 20	Apr 22	Oct 5
1990	May 2	Oct 10	Apr 17	Oct 12
1989	May 7	Sep 23	May 6	Oct 2
1988	Apr 23	Oct 4	Apr 19	Oct 6
1987	Apr 4	Oct 3	Apr 3	Oct 10
1986	Apr 22	Oct 12	Apr 3	Oct 14
1985	Apr 14	Sep 26	Apr 9	Oct 10
1984	Apr 30	Sep 26	Apr 30	Sep 26
1983	May 9	Sep 23	May 9	Oct 16
1982	Apr 28	Oct 20	Apr 21	Nov 3
1981	May 10	Sep 28	Apr 15	Oct 19
1980	May 7	Sep 23	Apr 14	Oct 12
1979	May 12	Oct 5	Apr 28	Oct 9
1978	May 1	Oct 8	Apr 21	Oct 13
1977	Apr 8	Oct 6	Apr 8	Oct 16
1976	May 7	Sep 23	May 3	Oct 6
1975	Apr 21	Oct 16	Apr 12	Oct 29
1974	May 6	Sep 22	Apr 8	Sep 22
1973	Apr 28	Oct 16	Apr 13	Nov 1
1972	Apr 25	Sep 30	Apr 8	Oct 15
1971	May 19	Sep 23	Apr 14	Oct 31
1970	May 2	Oct 9	May 2	Oct 10
1969	Apr 28	Oct 12	Mar 31	Oct 22
1968	May 5	Oct 4	Apr 25	Oct 4
1967	May 5	Sep 28	May 4	Oct 19
1966	May 11	Oct 1	May 1	Oct 16
1965	Apr 28	Sep 26	Apr 17	Sep 26
1964	Apr 13	Oct 6	Apr 8	Oct 9
1963	May 22	Oct 29	May 22	Oct 29
1962	Apr 19	Oct 23	Apr 16	Oct 24
1961	May 9	Sep 28	May 2	Sep 28
1960	May 8	Oct 19	Apr 30	Oct 19
1959	Apr 26	Oct 9	Apr 12	Oct 17
1958	Apr 29	Oct 1	Apr 29	Oct 5
1957	Apr 14	Oct 20	Apr 14	Oct 25

"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.