Last Frost Day

Frost history / Brookfield Wwtp, WI

Brookfield Wwtp, WI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00471062, 2007 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 830 ft, 43.052, -88.177. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 29Oct 14
EarliestApr 15 (2016)Oct 2 (2011)
LatestMay 13 (2020)Oct 28 (2007)
Trend4.1 days later per decade3.5 days later per decade
Years with data1619

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202009: Apr 222010: May 102011: Apr 212012: Apr 292013: May 132014: Apr 232015: Apr 282016: Apr 152017: May 82018: May 12019: Apr 292020: May 132021: May 122023: Apr 272024: Apr 262025: May 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202007: Oct 282008: Oct 42009: Oct 102010: Oct 42011: Oct 22012: Oct 122013: Oct 202014: Oct 112015: Oct 172016: Oct 142017: Oct 262018: Oct 132019: Oct 142020: Oct 52021: Oct 222022: Oct 82023: Oct 172024: Oct 162025: Oct 24

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 9Oct 24Apr 16Oct 24
2024Apr 26Oct 16Apr 26Nov 2
2023Apr 27Oct 17Apr 24Oct 30
2022no dataOct 8no dataOct 27
2021May 12Oct 22Apr 22Nov 3
2020May 13Oct 5May 10Oct 24
2019Apr 29Oct 14Apr 28Oct 26
2018May 1Oct 13Apr 29Oct 18
2017May 8Oct 26Apr 1Nov 6
2016Apr 15Oct 14Apr 12Nov 12
2015Apr 28Oct 17Apr 25Oct 17
2014Apr 23Oct 11Apr 23Oct 22
2013May 13Oct 20Apr 21Oct 23
2012Apr 29Oct 12Apr 27Oct 12
2011Apr 21Oct 2Apr 21Oct 28
2010May 10Oct 4Apr 9Oct 22
2009Apr 22Oct 10Apr 16Oct 10
2008no dataOct 4no dataOct 29
2007no dataOct 28no dataNov 2

"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.