Last Frost Day

Frost history / N Hartland Lake, VT

N Hartland Lake, VT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00435768, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 570 ft, 43.603, -72.362. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 8Oct 11
EarliestApr 25 (2018)Sep 19 (2020)
LatestMay 26 (2013)Oct 31 (2023)
Trend8.5 days earlier per decade2.4 days later per decade
Years with data1516

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 28 and the median first fall date is Oct 21.

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 14201020202011: May 62012: May 122013: May 262014: May 72015: May 242016: May 172017: May 52018: Apr 252019: May 142020: May 142021: May 82022: May 12023: May 192024: Apr 282025: Apr 29

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202010: Oct 102011: Oct 62012: Oct 132013: Oct 212014: Oct 122015: Oct 52016: Oct 112017: Oct 172018: Oct 142019: Oct 52020: Sep 192021: Oct 242022: Oct 32023: Oct 312024: Oct 172025: Oct 10

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
2025Apr 29Oct 10Apr 19Oct 10
2024Apr 28Oct 17Apr 28Oct 17
2023May 19Oct 31May 19Oct 31
2022May 1Oct 3Apr 30Oct 21
2021May 8Oct 24Apr 27Oct 25
2020May 14Sep 19May 14Oct 31
2019May 14Oct 5Apr 29Nov 2
2018Apr 25Oct 14Apr 24Oct 19
2017May 5Oct 17Apr 16Nov 8
2016May 17Oct 11Apr 29Oct 15
2015May 24Oct 5Apr 25Oct 18
2014May 7Oct 12Apr 21Oct 20
2013May 26Oct 21May 15Oct 26
2012May 12Oct 13May 1Oct 13
2011May 6Oct 6Apr 23Oct 28
2010no dataOct 10no dataOct 19

"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.