Last Frost Day

Frost history / Delavan Wwtp, WI

Delavan Wwtp, WI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00472051, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 882 ft, 42.636, -88.661. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 30Oct 19
EarliestApr 16 (2025)Oct 2 (2011)
LatestMay 15 (2016)Oct 30 (2023)
Trend8.0 days earlier per decade8.9 days later per decade
Years with data1314

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 18 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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 3020202012: Apr 272013: May 142014: Apr 232015: May 22016: May 152017: May 72018: Apr 302020: May 122021: May 112022: Apr 272023: Apr 262024: Apr 252025: Apr 16

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120202011: Oct 22012: Oct 82013: Oct 222014: Oct 102015: Oct 172016: Oct 142017: Oct 292019: Oct 252020: Oct 202021: Oct 222022: Oct 82023: Oct 302024: Oct 162025: Oct 23

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
2025Apr 16Oct 23Apr 16Oct 24
2024Apr 25Oct 16Mar 29Nov 26
2023Apr 26Oct 30Apr 26Oct 30
2022Apr 27Oct 8Apr 17Oct 19
2021May 11Oct 22Apr 22Nov 3
2020May 12Oct 20Apr 18Oct 30
2019no dataOct 25no dataNov 1
2018Apr 30no dataApr 29no data
2017May 7Oct 29Apr 1Nov 6
2016May 15Oct 14Apr 12Nov 12
2015May 2Oct 17Apr 24Oct 17
2014Apr 23Oct 10Apr 23Nov 2
2013May 14Oct 22Apr 20Oct 22
2012Apr 27Oct 8Apr 13Oct 27
2011no dataOct 2no dataNov 4

"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.