Frost history / Cashton 3NNW, WI
Cashton 3NNW, WI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00471287, 2014 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 939 ft, 43.786, -90.795. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 12 | Oct 8 |
| Earliest | Apr 25 (2024) | Sep 27 (2022) |
| Latest | May 29 (2021) | Oct 29 (2017) |
| Trend | 3.9 days earlier per decade | 1.3 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 11 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 28 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.
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 9 | Oct 8 | Apr 20 | Oct 23 |
| 2024 | Apr 25 | Oct 7 | Apr 24 | Oct 16 |
| 2023 | May 3 | Oct 11 | May 3 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | May 23 | Sep 27 | Apr 27 | Oct 8 |
| 2021 | May 29 | Oct 17 | May 29 | Oct 23 |
| 2020 | May 12 | Oct 2 | May 12 | Oct 4 |
| 2019 | May 13 | Oct 12 | Apr 28 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 29 | no data | Apr 29 | no data |
| 2017 | May 4 | Oct 29 | Apr 7 | Oct 29 |
| 2016 | May 16 | Oct 9 | May 15 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | May 13 | Sep 30 | Apr 26 | Oct 17 |
| 2014 | no data | Oct 5 | no data | Oct 10 |
"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.