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Frost history / Kimball 3N, MN

Kimball 3N, MN: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00214373, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,160 ft, 45.353, -94.306. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 4Oct 11
EarliestApr 20 (2025)Sep 14 (2011)
LatestMay 20 (2015)Oct 28 (2023)
Trend4.8 days earlier per decade6.7 days later per decade
Years with data1716

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.

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 30201020202009: Apr 292010: May 102011: May 42012: Apr 212013: May 132014: May 52015: May 202016: May 152017: May 22018: Apr 292019: May 92020: May 132021: May 122022: Apr 292023: Apr 272024: Apr 252025: Apr 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202009: Oct 92010: Oct 272011: Sep 142012: Oct 52013: Oct 202014: Oct 92015: Oct 162016: Oct 82017: Oct 102018: Sep 292019: Oct 112020: Oct 22022: Oct 142023: Oct 282024: Oct 152025: Oct 23

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
2025Apr 20Oct 23Apr 9Nov 8
2024Apr 25Oct 15Apr 1Nov 1
2023Apr 27Oct 28Apr 27Oct 28
2022Apr 29Oct 14Apr 28Oct 17
2021May 12no dataApr 25no data
2020May 13Oct 2Apr 22Oct 5
2019May 9Oct 11Apr 16Oct 24
2018Apr 29Sep 29Apr 28Oct 12
2017May 2Oct 10Apr 28Oct 11
2016May 15Oct 8Apr 13Nov 19
2015May 20Oct 16Apr 24Nov 13
2014May 5Oct 9Apr 19Oct 31
2013May 13Oct 20May 12Oct 22
2012Apr 21Oct 5Apr 21Oct 8
2011May 4Sep 14May 2Oct 30
2010May 10Oct 27Apr 22Oct 29
2009Apr 29Oct 9Apr 15Oct 9

"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.