Frost history / Rochester Wwtp, WI
Rochester Wwtp, WI: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00477314, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 783 ft, 42.727, -88.226. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 5 | Oct 16 |
| Earliest | Apr 24 (2014) | Sep 24 (2012) |
| Latest | May 30 (2021) | Oct 26 (2017) |
| Trend | 1.2 days earlier per decade | 5.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 and the median first fall date is Oct 24.
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 24 | Apr 17 | Oct 24 |
| 2024 | Apr 26 | Oct 16 | Apr 6 | Nov 26 |
| 2023 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 | Apr 27 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 28 | Oct 8 | Apr 27 | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | May 30 | Oct 23 | Apr 23 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 14 | Oct 5 | May 9 | Oct 20 |
| 2019 | Apr 29 | Oct 15 | Apr 28 | Oct 30 |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 13 | Apr 30 | Oct 13 |
| 2017 | May 9 | Oct 26 | Mar 23 | Nov 7 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Oct 14 | May 15 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | May 14 | Oct 17 | Apr 25 | Oct 17 |
| 2014 | Apr 24 | Oct 5 | Apr 24 | Oct 23 |
| 2013 | May 14 | Oct 20 | Apr 21 | Oct 22 |
| 2012 | Apr 29 | Sep 24 | Apr 29 | Oct 8 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Oct 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.