Last Frost Day

Frost history / Holland Tulip City Ap, MI

Holland Tulip City Ap, MI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00004839, 1996 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 689 ft, 42.746, -86.097. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 27Oct 19
EarliestApr 13 (2016)Oct 2 (2003)
LatestMay 26 (2002)Nov 11 (2013)
Trend2.7 days earlier per decade4.6 days later per decade
Years with data2829

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.

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 161998: Apr 271999: Apr 252000: Apr 262001: May 132002: May 262003: Apr 272004: May 42005: May 42006: Apr 262007: Apr 172008: Apr 302009: Apr 232010: May 102011: Apr 182012: Apr 272013: Apr 212014: Apr 162015: Apr 242016: Apr 132017: May 82018: Apr 302019: Apr 242020: May 92021: May 132022: Apr 272023: Apr 272024: Apr 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201996: Oct 41997: Oct 181998: Oct 221999: Oct 142000: Oct 292001: Oct 72002: Oct 142003: Oct 22004: Oct 42005: Oct 282006: Oct 152007: Oct 282008: Oct 222009: Oct 182010: Oct 42011: Oct 282012: Oct 72013: Nov 112014: Oct 192015: Oct 182016: Oct 252017: Oct 262018: Oct 172019: Oct 262020: Oct 162021: Oct 242022: Oct 292023: Oct 232024: Oct 27

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 25Oct 27Mar 29Nov 29
2023Apr 27Oct 23Apr 2Oct 31
2022Apr 27Oct 29Apr 10Nov 16
2021May 13Oct 24Apr 22Nov 23
2020May 9Oct 16May 9Nov 13
2019Apr 24Oct 26Apr 1Nov 7
2018Apr 30Oct 17Apr 20Nov 9
2017May 8Oct 26Mar 23Nov 8
2016Apr 13Oct 25Apr 9Nov 12
2015Apr 24Oct 18Apr 4Nov 22
2014Apr 16Oct 19Apr 16Nov 1
2013Apr 21Nov 11Apr 21Nov 11
2012Apr 27Oct 7Mar 10Nov 6
2011Apr 18Oct 28Apr 1Nov 18
2010May 10Oct 4Mar 27Nov 1
2009Apr 23Oct 18Apr 8Nov 12
2008Apr 30Oct 22Apr 30Nov 17
2007Apr 17Oct 28Apr 10Nov 23
2006Apr 26Oct 15Mar 27Nov 3
2005May 4Oct 28Mar 28Oct 29
2004May 4Oct 4Apr 14Nov 9
2003Apr 27Oct 2Apr 10Nov 8
2002May 26Oct 14May 21Oct 17
2001May 13Oct 7Apr 19Nov 5
2000Apr 26Oct 29Apr 12Nov 18
1999Apr 25Oct 14Apr 20Oct 27
1998Apr 27Oct 22Apr 11Nov 13
1997May 16Oct 18Apr 26Oct 23
1996no dataOct 4no dataOct 11

"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.