Last Frost Day

Frost history / Eden 2 S, VT

Eden 2 S, VT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00432698, 1998 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,456 ft, 44.672, -72.557. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 10Oct 7
EarliestApr 25 (2011)Sep 28 (2000)
LatestMay 31 (2001)Oct 21 (2005)
Trend10.2 days earlier per decade8.1 days later per decade
Years with data1413

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 22.

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 14200020101998: Apr 281999: May 132000: May 192001: May 312002: May 252003: May 32004: May 82005: May 142006: May 72007: May 172008: May 12009: Apr 292010: May 122011: Apr 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27200020101998: Oct 62000: Sep 282001: Oct 42002: Oct 82003: Oct 32004: Oct 52005: Oct 212006: Oct 132007: Oct 172008: Oct 72009: Oct 122010: Oct 162011: 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
2011Apr 25Oct 6Apr 22Oct 28
2010May 12Oct 16May 12Oct 23
2009Apr 29Oct 12Apr 14Oct 15
2008May 1Oct 7May 1Oct 18
2007May 17Oct 17Apr 13Oct 29
2006May 7Oct 13Apr 28Oct 22
2005May 14Oct 21May 13Oct 21
2004May 8Oct 5May 8Oct 28
2003May 3Oct 3Apr 26Oct 19
2002May 25Oct 8Apr 27Oct 15
2001May 31Oct 4Apr 29Oct 29
2000May 19Sep 28Apr 18Sep 28
1999May 13no dataApr 25no data
1998Apr 28Oct 6Apr 27Nov 4

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.