Last Frost Day

Frost history / Champaign Willard Ap, IL

Champaign Willard Ap, IL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00094870, 1997 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 754 ft, 40.040, -88.278. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 19Oct 15
EarliestMar 29 (1999)Oct 2 (2003)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 12 (2016)
Trend3.7 days later per decade4.1 days later per decade
Years with data2728

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 152000201020201998: Apr 171999: Mar 292000: Apr 132001: Apr 182002: Apr 232003: Apr 232004: Apr 142005: May 42006: Apr 92007: Apr 162008: Apr 152009: Apr 122010: May 92011: Apr 212012: Apr 232013: Apr 202014: Apr 162015: Apr 242016: Apr 132017: Apr 72018: Apr 292019: Apr 152020: May 92021: Apr 222022: Apr 192023: Apr 242024: Apr 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201997: Oct 151998: Oct 211999: Oct 52000: Oct 62001: Oct 72002: Oct 132003: Oct 22004: Oct 32005: Oct 262006: Oct 112007: Oct 282008: Oct 272009: Oct 102010: Oct 222011: Oct 212012: Oct 62013: Oct 212014: Oct 302015: Oct 172016: Nov 122017: Oct 292018: Oct 122019: Oct 122020: Oct 52021: Nov 12022: Oct 82023: Oct 302024: 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 28Nov 26
2023Apr 24Oct 30Apr 24Oct 30
2022Apr 19Oct 8Mar 28Oct 19
2021Apr 22Nov 1Apr 2Nov 3
2020May 9Oct 5Apr 18Oct 16
2019Apr 15Oct 12Apr 1Oct 31
2018Apr 29Oct 12Apr 8Oct 16
2017Apr 7Oct 29Mar 22Nov 9
2016Apr 13Nov 12Apr 12Nov 13
2015Apr 24Oct 17Apr 4Nov 13
2014Apr 16Oct 30Mar 30Nov 1
2013Apr 20Oct 21Apr 3Oct 22
2012Apr 23Oct 6Apr 11Oct 8
2011Apr 21Oct 21Mar 28Nov 10
2010May 9Oct 22Mar 26Oct 29
2009Apr 12Oct 10Apr 8Dec 3
2008Apr 15Oct 27Mar 29Oct 28
2007Apr 16Oct 28Apr 10Nov 6
2006Apr 9Oct 11Apr 9Oct 13
2005May 4Oct 26May 3Nov 16
2004Apr 14Oct 3Apr 14Oct 17
2003Apr 23Oct 2Mar 31Oct 2
2002Apr 23Oct 13Apr 6Nov 1
2001Apr 18Oct 7Apr 18Oct 17
2000Apr 13Oct 6Apr 12Oct 7
1999Mar 29Oct 5Mar 29Oct 18
1998Apr 17Oct 21Mar 24Nov 6
1997no dataOct 15no dataOct 22

"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.