Last Frost Day

Frost history / Oshkosh Wittman Ap, WI

Oshkosh Wittman Ap, WI: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00094855, 1996 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 782 ft, 43.984, -88.557. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 2Oct 13
EarliestApr 16 (2007)Sep 18 (2012)
LatestMay 20 (2015)Oct 29 (2023)
Trend1.4 days earlier per decade4.2 days later per decade
Years with data2829

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 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.

Chart

Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201997: May 161998: Apr 281999: Apr 252000: May 202001: Apr 182002: May 202003: May 42004: May 32005: May 42006: May 62007: Apr 162008: Apr 302009: Apr 232010: Apr 282011: May 42012: Apr 292013: May 132014: Apr 232015: May 202016: May 152017: May 32018: Apr 292019: Apr 282020: May 132021: Apr 252022: May 52023: Apr 262024: Apr 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201996: Oct 31997: Oct 171998: Oct 211999: Oct 42000: Oct 62001: Oct 62002: Oct 132003: Oct 12004: Oct 22005: Oct 272006: Oct 112007: Oct 282008: Oct 42009: Oct 102010: Oct 42011: Oct 22012: Sep 182013: Oct 212014: Oct 102015: Oct 162016: Oct 252017: Oct 292018: Oct 122019: Oct 142020: Oct 162021: Oct 242022: Oct 142023: Oct 292024: 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 16Mar 29Nov 26
2023Apr 26Oct 29Apr 7Oct 30
2022May 5Oct 14Apr 27Oct 19
2021Apr 25Oct 24Apr 22Nov 3
2020May 13Oct 16May 12Oct 19
2019Apr 28Oct 14Apr 15Oct 29
2018Apr 29Oct 12Apr 29Oct 13
2017May 3Oct 29Mar 23Oct 31
2016May 15Oct 25Apr 12Nov 19
2015May 20Oct 16Apr 4Oct 18
2014Apr 23Oct 10Apr 16Nov 1
2013May 13Oct 21Apr 20Nov 7
2012Apr 29Sep 18Mar 9Oct 12
2011May 4Oct 2Mar 31Oct 28
2010Apr 28Oct 4Apr 9Nov 1
2009Apr 23Oct 10Apr 16Oct 11
2008Apr 30Oct 4Apr 14Nov 9
2007Apr 16Oct 28Apr 14Nov 7
2006May 6Oct 11Apr 8Oct 12
2005May 4Oct 27May 4Oct 28
2004May 3Oct 2May 3Oct 5
2003May 4Oct 1Apr 23Oct 2
2002May 20Oct 13Apr 26Oct 14
2001Apr 18Oct 6Apr 18Oct 6
2000May 20Oct 6Apr 12Nov 11
1999Apr 25Oct 4Mar 27Oct 4
1998Apr 28Oct 21Apr 6Oct 22
1997May 16Oct 17May 16Oct 22
1996no dataOct 3no dataOct 19

"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.