Last Frost Day

Frost history / Forestville-4E, WI

Forestville-4E, WI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00472851, 2003 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 690 ft, 44.700, -87.397. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 4Oct 18
EarliestApr 16 (2007)Oct 2 (2003)
LatestMay 28 (2008)Oct 30 (2023)
Trend3.0 days earlier per decade4.9 days later per decade
Years with data2323

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.

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 30Jun 14201020202003: May 32004: May 32005: May 42006: May 222007: Apr 162008: May 282009: May 112010: May 102011: May 42012: Apr 292013: May 132014: Apr 242015: May 202016: May 152017: May 92018: Apr 302019: May 42020: May 132021: May 102022: Apr 282023: May 22024: Apr 252025: Apr 27

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202003: Oct 22004: Oct 52005: Oct 282006: Oct 122007: Oct 132008: Oct 292009: Oct 102010: Oct 222011: Oct 282012: Oct 122013: Oct 202014: Oct 222015: Oct 172016: Oct 142017: Oct 292018: Oct 132019: Oct 152020: Oct 162021: Oct 222022: Oct 272023: Oct 302024: Oct 182025: Oct 25

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 27Oct 25Apr 9Nov 2
2024Apr 25Oct 18Apr 25Nov 26
2023May 2Oct 30Apr 26Oct 31
2022Apr 28Oct 27Apr 28Nov 13
2021May 10Oct 22Apr 23Nov 3
2020May 13Oct 16May 9Oct 19
2019May 4Oct 15Apr 12Nov 1
2018Apr 30Oct 13Apr 29Oct 13
2017May 9Oct 29May 8Nov 1
2016May 15Oct 14Apr 12Nov 20
2015May 20Oct 17Apr 25Oct 17
2014Apr 24Oct 22Apr 24Nov 12
2013May 13Oct 20Apr 21Oct 23
2012Apr 29Oct 12Apr 29Oct 12
2011May 4Oct 28Apr 21Nov 17
2010May 10Oct 22Apr 9Oct 29
2009May 11Oct 10Apr 23Nov 11
2008May 28Oct 29Apr 29Nov 9
2007Apr 16Oct 13Apr 13Nov 7
2006May 22Oct 12May 6Oct 12
2005May 4Oct 28Mar 27Nov 14
2004May 3Oct 5May 3Nov 9
2003May 3Oct 2Apr 23Nov 6

"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.