Frost history / Great Falls Wfo, MT
Great Falls Wfo, MT: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00243753, 1997 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,705 ft, 47.461, -111.385. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 12 | Oct 1 |
| Earliest | Apr 20 (2017) | Sep 8 (2020) |
| Latest | Jun 11 (2008) | Oct 24 (2023) |
| Trend | 4.3 days earlier per decade | 5.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 24 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 29 and the median first fall date is Oct 11.
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 | May 6 | Oct 5 | Apr 24 | Oct 12 |
| 2024 | May 8 | Oct 18 | May 1 | Oct 29 |
| 2023 | Apr 23 | Oct 24 | Apr 22 | Oct 24 |
| 2022 | May 21 | Oct 13 | May 21 | Oct 24 |
| 2021 | May 22 | Oct 11 | May 22 | Oct 12 |
| 2020 | May 12 | Sep 8 | Apr 17 | Oct 15 |
| 2019 | May 18 | Sep 28 | May 4 | Sep 28 |
| 2018 | Apr 24 | Sep 29 | Apr 13 | Oct 1 |
| 2017 | Apr 20 | Sep 23 | Apr 16 | Oct 2 |
| 2016 | May 11 | Sep 13 | Apr 18 | Oct 10 |
| 2015 | May 18 | Oct 3 | May 7 | Oct 5 |
| 2014 | May 12 | Sep 10 | May 12 | Oct 2 |
| 2013 | May 2 | Oct 4 | May 1 | Oct 12 |
| 2012 | May 28 | Oct 2 | May 13 | Oct 5 |
| 2011 | May 2 | Oct 14 | Apr 29 | Oct 25 |
| 2010 | May 12 | Sep 17 | May 10 | Oct 16 |
| 2008 | Jun 11 | Oct 8 | May 3 | Oct 9 |
| 2007 | May 14 | Sep 20 | Apr 21 | Oct 26 |
| 2006 | May 9 | Sep 16 | Apr 24 | Oct 13 |
| 2003 | May 19 | Sep 16 | Apr 7 | Oct 25 |
| 2001 | May 21 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 2000 | May 31 | Sep 21 | May 8 | Sep 21 |
| 1999 | no data | Sep 12 | no data | Oct 1 |
| 1998 | Apr 26 | Oct 4 | Apr 16 | Oct 4 |
| 1997 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 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.