Last Frost Day

Frost history / N Springfield Lake, VT

N Springfield Lake, VT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00435982, 2007 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 560 ft, 43.339, -72.506. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 10Oct 7
EarliestApr 22 (2025)Sep 17 (2013)
LatestJun 1 (2009)Nov 1 (2023)
Trend9.5 days earlier per decade4.6 days later per decade
Years with data1819

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 24 and the median first fall date is Oct 18.

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 14201020202008: May 52009: Jun 12010: May 132011: May 92012: May 122013: May 162014: May 82015: May 142016: May 112017: May 52018: Apr 252019: Apr 302020: May 152021: Apr 232022: May 102023: May 192024: Apr 282025: Apr 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202007: Oct 132008: Oct 72009: Oct 102010: Oct 112011: Oct 62012: Sep 252013: Sep 172014: Sep 282015: Oct 52016: Sep 252017: Oct 172018: Oct 172019: Oct 52020: Sep 192021: Oct 242022: Oct 192023: Nov 12024: Oct 172025: Sep 22

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 22Sep 22Apr 20Oct 10
2024Apr 28Oct 17Apr 27Oct 17
2023May 19Nov 1May 18Nov 2
2022May 10Oct 19Apr 21Oct 21
2021Apr 23Oct 24Apr 5Nov 3
2020May 15Sep 19May 14Oct 31
2019Apr 30Oct 5Apr 18Oct 6
2018Apr 25Oct 17Apr 25Oct 19
2017May 5Oct 17Apr 4Nov 9
2016May 11Sep 25May 8Oct 15
2015May 14Oct 5Apr 17Oct 18
2014May 8Sep 28Apr 21Oct 6
2013May 16Sep 17May 15Oct 25
2012May 12Sep 25Apr 30Oct 13
2011May 9Oct 6Apr 24Oct 28
2010May 13Oct 11May 11Oct 13
2009Jun 1Oct 10Apr 20Oct 11
2008May 5Oct 7May 5Oct 18
2007no dataOct 13no dataOct 28

"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.