Last Frost Day

Frost history / Logan Landfill, MT

Logan Landfill, MT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00245123, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 4,243 ft, 45.876, -111.411. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 24Sep 12
EarliestMay 7 (2013)Aug 24 (2015)
LatestJul 8 (2016)Oct 8 (2023)
Trend1.4 days earlier per decade12.3 days later per decade
Years with data1517

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 2.

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)

Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 29Jul 14201020202009: May 222011: Jun 52012: Jun 82013: May 72014: May 152015: May 122016: Jul 82017: May 272018: Jun 132020: Jun 102021: May 232022: May 242023: May 112024: Jun 12025: May 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 13Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27201020202008: Sep 52009: Sep 102011: Sep 22012: Sep 122013: Sep 272014: Sep 122015: Aug 242016: Sep 112017: Sep 182018: Sep 212019: Sep 292020: Sep 92021: Sep 182022: Sep 112023: Oct 82024: Sep 232025: Sep 28

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
2025May 22Sep 28Apr 23Oct 7
2024Jun 1Sep 23May 5Oct 2
2023May 11Oct 8Apr 29Oct 19
2022May 24Sep 11May 22Oct 15
2021May 23Sep 18May 23Sep 18
2020Jun 10Sep 9May 9Sep 29
2019no dataSep 29no dataSep 30
2018Jun 13Sep 21Jun 13Sep 26
2017May 27Sep 18May 15Oct 3
2016Jul 8Sep 11May 4Oct 7
2015May 12Aug 24May 12Oct 5
2014May 15Sep 12May 14Sep 12
2013May 7Sep 27May 3Oct 2
2012Jun 8Sep 12May 13Oct 6
2011Jun 5Sep 2May 12Sep 22
2009May 22Sep 10May 22Sep 28
2008no dataSep 5no 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.