Last Frost Day

Frost history / Bradford 2, NH

Bradford 2, NH: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00270913, 2011 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 815 ft, 43.259, -72.002. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 14Sep 27
EarliestApr 27 (2024)Sep 15 (2014)
LatestJun 2 (2020)Oct 24 (2021)
Trend1.2 days earlier per decade21.6 days later per decade
Years with data1314

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 29 and the median first fall date is Oct 13.

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 30Jun 1420202011: May 62012: May 182013: May 282014: May 92015: May 162016: May 122017: May 212018: May 132019: May 142020: Jun 22022: May 112023: May 262024: Apr 27

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120202011: Sep 172012: Sep 172013: Sep 182014: Sep 152015: Sep 272016: Sep 262017: Oct 12018: Oct 152019: Sep 192020: Sep 202021: Oct 242022: Sep 302023: Oct 232024: Oct 6

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
2024Apr 27Oct 6Apr 27Oct 17
2023May 26Oct 23May 18Oct 23
2022May 11Sep 30May 10Oct 19
2021no dataOct 24no dataOct 28
2020Jun 2Sep 20May 6Sep 20
2019May 14Sep 19Apr 18Oct 5
2018May 13Oct 15May 13Oct 19
2017May 21Oct 1Apr 16Oct 13
2016May 12Sep 26Apr 29Sep 26
2015May 16Sep 27Apr 23Sep 27
2014May 9Sep 15Apr 21Oct 12
2013May 28Sep 18May 15Oct 9
2012May 18Sep 17Apr 29Oct 13
2011May 6Sep 17Apr 23Oct 24

"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.