Frost history / Waitsfield 2 Se, VT
Waitsfield 2 Se, VT: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00438640, 2011 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,142 ft, 44.176, -72.796. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 9 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 25 (2014) | Sep 17 (2013) |
| Latest | May 16 (2016) | Oct 24 (2023) |
| Trend | 6.5 days later per decade | 14.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 13 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 23 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | May 9 | Oct 1 | Apr 22 | Oct 29 |
| 2021 | May 7 | Oct 23 | Apr 27 | Oct 29 |
| 2020 | May 13 | Sep 19 | May 10 | Oct 12 |
| 2019 | May 14 | Oct 5 | Apr 12 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | May 12 | Oct 15 | Apr 23 | Oct 19 |
| 2017 | May 9 | Oct 13 | Apr 4 | Nov 8 |
| 2016 | May 16 | Sep 26 | Apr 29 | Oct 15 |
| 2015 | Apr 25 | Sep 23 | Apr 16 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | Apr 25 | Sep 19 | Apr 21 | Sep 19 |
| 2013 | May 15 | Sep 17 | Apr 26 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | May 6 | Oct 9 | Apr 30 | Oct 13 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 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.