Frost history / Stevensville 2SW, MD
Stevensville 2SW, MD: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00188557, 1953 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 10 ft, 38.972, -76.338. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 28 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Mar 2 (2024) | Nov 3 (1959) |
| Latest | Apr 13 (1959) | Dec 19 (2015) |
| Trend | 1.4 days earlier per decade | 1.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 21 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.
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)
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 | Mar 4 | Nov 12 | Mar 3 | Dec 5 |
| 2024 | Mar 2 | Nov 30 | Feb 28 | Dec 2 |
| 2023 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 | Feb 19 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 31 | Nov 21 | Mar 30 | Nov 21 |
| 2021 | Apr 3 | Dec 1 | Mar 8 | none |
| 2020 | Mar 8 | Nov 19 | Feb 23 | Dec 18 |
| 2019 | Mar 24 | Nov 9 | Mar 8 | Nov 9 |
| 2018 | Mar 28 | Nov 12 | Feb 10 | Nov 23 |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Dec 9 | Feb 20 | Dec 16 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Dec 19 | Mar 30 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 | Mar 28 | Nov 18 |
| 2013 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 | Mar 5 | Nov 24 |
| 2012 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 | Feb 21 | Nov 6 |
| 2011 | Mar 28 | Dec 2 | Mar 4 | Dec 12 |
| 1960 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 1959 | Apr 13 | Nov 3 | Mar 29 | Nov 18 |
| 1958 | Mar 29 | Nov 23 | Mar 18 | Nov 30 |
| 1957 | Apr 13 | Nov 12 | Mar 6 | Dec 1 |
| 1956 | Mar 31 | Nov 11 | Mar 25 | Nov 23 |
| 1955 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 1954 | Apr 4 | Nov 6 | Mar 19 | Nov 11 |
| 1953 | Mar 11 | Nov 6 | Mar 11 | Dec 3 |
"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.