Last Frost Day

Frost history / Union Village Dam, VT

Union Village Dam, VT: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00438556, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 460 ft, 43.792, -72.258. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 10Oct 4
EarliestApr 28 (2024)Sep 17 (2013)
LatestJun 1 (2020)Oct 31 (2023)
Trend4.5 days earlier per decade8.3 days later per decade
Years with data1515

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 1 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 1420202011: May 62012: May 132013: May 272014: May 82015: May 232016: May 172017: May 42018: May 132019: May 92020: Jun 12021: May 82022: May 102023: May 262024: Apr 282025: May 2

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120202011: Oct 62012: Oct 132013: Sep 172014: Sep 192015: Oct 42016: Sep 262017: Oct 22018: Oct 142019: Oct 52020: Sep 192021: Oct 242022: Oct 32023: Oct 312024: Oct 152025: Sep 21

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 2Sep 21Apr 22Oct 10
2024Apr 28Oct 15Apr 28Oct 17
2023May 26Oct 31May 19Oct 31
2022May 10Oct 3May 1Oct 21
2021May 8Oct 24Apr 27Oct 24
2020Jun 1Sep 19May 14Sep 19
2019May 9Oct 5Apr 29Oct 5
2018May 13Oct 14Apr 24Oct 19
2017May 4Oct 2Apr 16Nov 8
2016May 17Sep 26May 10Oct 12
2015May 23Oct 4May 23Oct 18
2014May 8Sep 19May 7Oct 13
2013May 27Sep 17May 15Oct 25
2012May 13Oct 13May 1Oct 13
2011May 6Oct 6Apr 23Oct 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.