Last Frost Day

Frost history / Taylor 7 Nnw, ND

Taylor 7 Nnw, ND: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00328660, 2002 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,220 ft, 46.999, -102.476. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 25Sep 17
EarliestMay 2 (2018)Aug 18 (2002)
LatestJun 24 (2004)Oct 6 (2016)
Trend0.6 days earlier per decade7.3 days later per decade
Years with data1719

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 1.

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 14Jun 29201020202002: May 252003: May 202004: Jun 242005: May 152006: May 152007: May 162008: May 272009: Jun 92010: May 122011: May 152014: May 152015: May 302017: May 312018: May 22019: May 312020: May 292021: May 31

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 13Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12201020202002: Aug 182003: Sep 192004: Sep 72005: Sep 222006: Sep 192007: Sep 142008: Sep 142009: Oct 62010: Sep 172012: Sep 72013: Oct 42014: Sep 122015: Sep 112016: Oct 62017: Sep 172018: Sep 262019: Sep 282020: Sep 82021: Sep 25

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
2021May 31Sep 25May 11Oct 21
2020May 29Sep 8May 12Sep 8
2019May 31Sep 28May 12Oct 10
2018May 2Sep 26Apr 26Sep 28
2017May 31Sep 17May 30Oct 4
2016no dataOct 6no dataOct 8
2015May 30Sep 11May 20Sep 29
2014May 15Sep 12May 15Oct 4
2013no dataOct 4no dataOct 6
2012no dataSep 7no dataSep 12
2011May 15no dataMay 15no data
2010May 12Sep 17May 10Oct 18
2009Jun 9Oct 6May 23Oct 8
2008May 27Sep 14May 11Oct 9
2007May 16Sep 14May 1Sep 14
2006May 15Sep 19May 15Sep 20
2005May 15Sep 22May 15Sep 22
2004Jun 24Sep 7Jun 24Oct 1
2003May 20Sep 19May 20Sep 28
2002May 25Aug 18May 24Sep 25

"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.