Last Frost Day

Frost history / Fond Du Lac 2 Sw, WI

Fond Du Lac 2 Sw, WI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00472842, 2010 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 772 ft, 43.767, -88.466. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 30Oct 22
EarliestApr 25 (2021)Oct 8 (2022)
LatestMay 15 (2016)Oct 29 (2017)
Trend6.7 days earlier per decade2.8 days earlier per decade
Years with data1413

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 23 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.

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 30201020202010: May 92011: May 42012: Apr 292013: May 132015: Apr 282016: May 152017: May 82018: Apr 292019: Apr 282020: May 122021: Apr 252022: Apr 282023: May 12024: Apr 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202010: Oct 222011: Oct 232012: Oct 122014: Oct 222015: Oct 172016: Oct 252017: Oct 292018: Oct 122019: Oct 142020: Oct 172021: Oct 242022: Oct 82023: Oct 22

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
2024Apr 25no dataApr 25no data
2023May 1Oct 22Apr 24Oct 30
2022Apr 28Oct 8Apr 27Oct 19
2021Apr 25Oct 24Apr 22Nov 3
2020May 12Oct 17Apr 16Oct 19
2019Apr 28Oct 14Apr 28Oct 29
2018Apr 29Oct 12Apr 29Oct 18
2017May 8Oct 29Apr 1Nov 1
2016May 15Oct 25Apr 12Nov 19
2015Apr 28Oct 17Apr 24Oct 17
2014no dataOct 22no dataOct 22
2013May 13no dataApr 20no data
2012Apr 29Oct 12Apr 27Oct 12
2011May 4Oct 23Mar 31Oct 28
2010May 9Oct 22Apr 9Oct 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 to 2020 frost probabilities.