Last Frost Day

Frost history / Champaign 9 Sw, IL

Champaign 9 Sw, IL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00054808, 2003 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 700 ft, 40.053, -88.373. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 22Oct 11
EarliestApr 7 (2017)Sep 15 (2007)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 1 (2021)
Trend3.3 days later per decade6.1 days later per decade
Years with data2222

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 21.

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 15201020202003: Apr 232004: Apr 142005: May 42006: Apr 92007: Apr 202008: Apr 152009: Apr 122010: May 92011: Apr 212012: Apr 232013: Apr 202014: Apr 232015: Apr 242016: Apr 122017: Apr 72018: Apr 292019: Apr 152020: May 92021: May 82022: Apr 192023: Apr 262024: Apr 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202003: Oct 12004: Oct 22005: Oct 162006: Oct 112007: Sep 152008: Oct 272009: Oct 102010: Oct 42011: Oct 22012: Sep 242013: Oct 212014: Oct 192015: Oct 172016: Oct 222017: Oct 292018: Oct 122019: Oct 122020: Oct 42021: Nov 12022: Oct 82023: Oct 102024: Oct 16

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

"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.