Last Frost Day

Frost history / Averill, VT

Averill, VT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00430193, 2012 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,699 ft, 45.006, -71.690. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 29Sep 16
EarliestMay 11 (2024)Sep 6 (2013)
LatestJun 22 (2018)Oct 24 (2023)
Trend8.5 days earlier per decade18.2 days later per decade
Years with data1313

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 16 and the median first fall date is Sep 26.

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 30May 15May 30Jun 14Jun 2920202012: May 182013: Jun 52014: May 292015: Jun 72016: May 202017: Jun 152018: Jun 222020: Jun 22021: May 302022: May 242023: May 262024: May 112025: May 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120202012: Sep 162013: Sep 62014: Sep 132015: Sep 212016: Sep 162017: Oct 12018: Sep 92019: Sep 102020: Sep 122021: Sep 202023: Oct 242024: Oct 122025: Sep 20

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 20Sep 20May 1Sep 20
2024May 11Oct 12Apr 27Oct 12
2023May 26Oct 24May 19Oct 31
2022May 24no dataMay 24no data
2021May 30Sep 20May 28Oct 24
2020Jun 2Sep 12Jun 1Sep 18
2019no dataSep 10no dataSep 19
2018Jun 22Sep 9May 18Sep 23
2017Jun 15Oct 1May 9Oct 12
2016May 20Sep 16May 16Sep 26
2015Jun 7Sep 21May 23Sep 26
2014May 29Sep 13May 8Sep 19
2013Jun 5Sep 6May 15Oct 9
2012May 18Sep 16May 7Sep 20

"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.