Frost history / Plainfield, VT
Plainfield, VT: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00436391, 2000 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 800 ft, 44.276, -72.415. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 20 | Sep 25 |
| Earliest | Apr 28 (2024) | Sep 2 (2017) |
| Latest | Jun 7 (2015) | Oct 31 (2023) |
| Trend | 5.8 days earlier per decade | 3.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 24 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 9 and the median first fall date is Oct 8.
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)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | May 12 | Sep 20 | May 1 | Sep 20 |
| 2024 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 | Apr 27 | Oct 18 |
| 2023 | May 26 | Oct 31 | May 19 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | May 10 | Oct 3 | May 9 | Oct 3 |
| 2021 | May 14 | Oct 23 | May 7 | Oct 23 |
| 2020 | Jun 1 | Sep 15 | May 14 | Sep 19 |
| 2019 | May 14 | Sep 19 | May 9 | Oct 5 |
| 2018 | May 18 | Sep 9 | May 12 | Oct 15 |
| 2017 | May 21 | Sep 2 | May 4 | Oct 2 |
| 2016 | May 17 | Sep 25 | May 17 | Oct 11 |
| 2015 | Jun 7 | Sep 26 | May 23 | Oct 3 |
| 2014 | May 19 | no data | May 8 | no data |
| 2013 | May 28 | Sep 9 | May 15 | Oct 21 |
| 2012 | May 18 | Sep 17 | May 12 | Oct 13 |
| 2011 | May 10 | Sep 17 | May 1 | Oct 6 |
| 2010 | May 17 | Sep 21 | May 13 | Oct 10 |
| 2009 | May 26 | Sep 21 | May 19 | Sep 27 |
| 2008 | May 11 | Oct 7 | May 1 | Oct 7 |
| 2007 | May 22 | Oct 13 | May 8 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | May 25 | Sep 27 | May 9 | Oct 8 |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 1 | no data | Oct 21 |
| 2004 | May 31 | Oct 4 | May 8 | Oct 6 |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 2002 | Jun 4 | Oct 8 | May 20 | Oct 9 |
| 2001 | Jun 1 | Sep 15 | May 6 | Oct 9 |
| 2000 | May 20 | Sep 5 | May 3 | Sep 29 |
"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.