Frost history / Wells, MN
Wells, MN: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00218808, 1993 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,135 ft, 43.747, -93.737. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 30 | Oct 3 |
| Earliest | Apr 8 (2006) | Sep 15 (2007) |
| Latest | May 20 (2002) | Oct 25 (2017) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 3.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 29 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 20 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)
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 20 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Oct 23 |
| 2024 | Apr 24 | Oct 14 | Apr 24 | Oct 15 |
| 2023 | May 3 | Oct 9 | Apr 25 | Oct 10 |
| 2022 | Apr 27 | Sep 28 | Apr 27 | Oct 8 |
| 2021 | May 11 | Oct 16 | Apr 25 | Oct 23 |
| 2020 | May 12 | Oct 2 | May 12 | Oct 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 28 | Oct 12 | Apr 15 | Oct 14 |
| 2018 | Apr 28 | Sep 29 | Apr 20 | Oct 12 |
| 2017 | Apr 29 | Oct 25 | Apr 28 | Oct 29 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Oct 9 | Apr 12 | Oct 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 27 | Oct 16 | Apr 23 | Oct 16 |
| 2014 | May 17 | Oct 4 | Apr 18 | Oct 10 |
| 2013 | May 12 | Oct 13 | May 12 | Oct 20 |
| 2012 | Apr 20 | Sep 23 | Apr 11 | Sep 23 |
| 2011 | May 3 | Sep 15 | May 3 | Oct 20 |
| 2010 | May 9 | Oct 3 | Apr 9 | Oct 29 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 9 | no data | Oct 9 |
| 2008 | Apr 30 | Oct 16 | Apr 30 | Oct 16 |
| 2007 | Apr 18 | Sep 15 | Apr 14 | Oct 28 |
| 2006 | Apr 8 | Sep 20 | Apr 8 | Oct 12 |
| 2005 | May 3 | Oct 8 | May 3 | Oct 22 |
| 2004 | May 3 | Oct 2 | Apr 27 | Oct 2 |
| 2003 | no data | Sep 25 | no data | Sep 30 |
| 2002 | May 20 | no data | May 2 | no data |
| 2001 | Apr 24 | no data | Apr 18 | no data |
| 2000 | May 19 | Sep 21 | Apr 22 | Sep 25 |
| 1999 | May 9 | Sep 21 | Apr 12 | Sep 29 |
| 1998 | Apr 28 | Oct 1 | Apr 16 | Nov 3 |
| 1997 | no data | Oct 14 | no data | Oct 20 |
| 1995 | Apr 27 | Sep 21 | Apr 10 | Oct 21 |
| 1994 | May 5 | Oct 25 | Apr 9 | Oct 25 |
| 1993 | Apr 20 | Oct 1 | Apr 4 | Oct 8 |
"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.