Frost history / Salisbury 2N, MD
Salisbury 2N, MD: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00188004, 2012 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 38.408, -75.592. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 8 | Nov 6 |
| Earliest | Mar 24 (2017) | Oct 19 (2015) |
| Latest | Apr 29 (2022) | Nov 19 (2020) |
| Trend | 3.2 days later per decade | 8.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 18.
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)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 9 | Nov 11 | Mar 9 | Nov 18 |
| 2024 | Mar 25 | Oct 28 | Mar 1 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 | Mar 21 | Nov 25 |
| 2022 | Apr 29 | Nov 14 | Mar 29 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 3 | Nov 14 | Apr 3 | Nov 30 |
| 2020 | Apr 17 | Nov 19 | Mar 8 | Nov 19 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Nov 4 | Mar 28 | Nov 9 |
| 2018 | Apr 21 | Oct 22 | Apr 10 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 2016 | Apr 10 | Nov 13 | Apr 6 | Nov 23 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Oct 19 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | Apr 6 | Nov 8 | Mar 27 | Nov 8 |
| 2013 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 2012 | Apr 8 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
"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.