Last Frost Day

Frost history / Union Grove, WI

Union Grove, WI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00478723, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 730 ft, 42.690, -88.034. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 4Oct 13
EarliestApr 18 (2001)Sep 19 (2012)
LatestMay 30 (2021)Oct 27 (2007)
Trend1.9 days later per decade2.9 days later per decade
Years with data2930

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 25 and the median first fall date is Oct 22.

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 142000201020201997: May 221998: Apr 271999: Apr 242000: Apr 252001: Apr 182002: May 202003: May 32004: May 42005: May 42006: Apr 252007: Apr 192008: May 192009: Apr 232010: May 102011: May 52012: Apr 292013: May 132014: Apr 262015: May 132016: May 152017: May 82018: Apr 302019: May 42020: May 132021: May 302022: Apr 282023: Apr 272024: Apr 252025: May 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201996: Oct 31997: Oct 141998: Oct 211999: Oct 142000: Oct 62001: Oct 52002: Oct 132003: Sep 302004: Sep 292005: Oct 222006: Oct 112007: Oct 272008: Oct 42009: Oct 12010: Oct 42011: Oct 222012: Sep 192013: Oct 202014: Oct 102015: Oct 172016: Oct 142017: Oct 262018: Oct 132019: Oct 182020: Oct 52021: Oct 232022: Oct 82023: Oct 172024: 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 16Oct 24
2024Apr 25Oct 16Apr 25Oct 17
2023Apr 27Oct 17Apr 27Oct 30
2022Apr 28Oct 8Apr 27Oct 27
2021May 30Oct 23May 12Oct 24
2020May 13Oct 5May 9Oct 5
2019May 4Oct 18Apr 28Oct 26
2018Apr 30Oct 13Apr 29Oct 13
2017May 8Oct 26May 8Nov 6
2016May 15Oct 14Apr 12Nov 12
2015May 13Oct 17Apr 24Oct 17
2014Apr 26Oct 10Apr 23Oct 11
2013May 13Oct 20Apr 21Oct 22
2012Apr 29Sep 19Apr 27Oct 8
2011May 5Oct 22Apr 19Oct 28
2010May 10Oct 4Apr 28Oct 22
2009Apr 23Oct 1Apr 17Oct 11
2008May 19Oct 4Apr 30Oct 30
2007Apr 19Oct 27Apr 14Oct 27
2006Apr 25Oct 11Apr 25Oct 11
2005May 4Oct 22May 3Oct 27
2004May 4Sep 29May 2Oct 4
2003May 3Sep 30Apr 23Sep 30
2002May 20Oct 13May 20Oct 13
2001Apr 18Oct 5Apr 17Oct 6
2000Apr 25Oct 6Apr 11Oct 8
1999Apr 24Oct 14Mar 27Oct 23
1998Apr 27Oct 21Apr 5Nov 4
1997May 22Oct 14Apr 17Oct 22
1996no dataOct 3no dataOct 10

"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.