Last Frost Day

Frost history / Pell Lake, WI

Pell Lake, WI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00476420, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 840 ft, 42.532, -88.332. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 5Oct 11
EarliestApr 26 (2024)Sep 24 (2012)
LatestMay 30 (2021)Oct 26 (2017)
Trend0.7 days later per decade3.2 days later per decade
Years with data1516

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.

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 30Jun 14201020202010: Apr 282011: May 52012: Apr 272013: May 132015: May 132016: May 152017: May 92018: Apr 302019: May 42020: May 132021: May 302022: Apr 282023: Apr 282024: Apr 262025: May 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202010: Oct 42011: Oct 222012: Sep 242013: Oct 202014: Oct 52015: Oct 172016: Oct 132017: Oct 262018: Sep 292019: Oct 82020: Oct 52021: Oct 222022: Sep 292023: Oct 92024: 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 27Oct 24
2024Apr 26Oct 16Apr 26Oct 17
2023Apr 28Oct 9Apr 27Oct 30
2022Apr 28Sep 29Apr 28Oct 8
2021May 30Oct 22May 13Oct 23
2020May 13Oct 5May 9Oct 5
2019May 4Oct 8Apr 28Oct 26
2018Apr 30Sep 29Apr 29Oct 13
2017May 9Oct 26Apr 1Nov 6
2016May 15Oct 13May 15Oct 14
2015May 13Oct 17Apr 25Oct 17
2014no dataOct 5no dataOct 11
2013May 13Oct 20Apr 20Oct 25
2012Apr 27Sep 24Apr 12Nov 3
2011May 5Oct 22Apr 1Oct 30
2010Apr 28Oct 4Apr 10Oct 22

"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.