Last Frost Day

Frost history / Colden 1W, NY

Colden 1W, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00301625, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,535 ft, 42.647, -78.711. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 30Oct 23
EarliestApr 17 (2007)Oct 7 (2008)
LatestMay 23 (2015)Nov 4 (2017)
Trend1.2 days earlier per decade4.1 days later per decade
Years with data2021

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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 15May 30201020202006: May 72007: Apr 172008: May 12009: May 182010: May 112011: Apr 222012: Apr 302013: May 142014: Apr 252015: May 232016: Apr 282017: May 92018: Apr 302019: Apr 292020: May 142021: May 12022: Apr 302023: May 182024: Apr 262025: Apr 18

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202005: Oct 202006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 72009: Oct 122010: Nov 12011: Oct 282012: Oct 132013: Oct 242014: Oct 122015: Oct 172016: Oct 262017: Nov 42018: Oct 182019: Nov 22020: Oct 172021: Nov 22022: Oct 282023: Oct 232024: Oct 172025: Oct 26

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
2025Apr 18Oct 26Apr 17Nov 10
2024Apr 26Oct 17Apr 26Nov 13
2023May 18Oct 23Apr 10Nov 1
2022Apr 30Oct 28Apr 29Nov 14
2021May 1Nov 2Apr 23Nov 5
2020May 14Oct 17May 13Oct 31
2019Apr 29Nov 2Apr 29Nov 8
2018Apr 30Oct 18Apr 22Nov 9
2017May 9Nov 4Apr 9Nov 8
2016Apr 28Oct 26Apr 27Oct 26
2015May 23Oct 17Apr 26Oct 19
2014Apr 25Oct 12Apr 24Nov 2
2013May 14Oct 24Apr 22Oct 29
2012Apr 30Oct 13Apr 29Oct 13
2011Apr 22Oct 28Apr 22Oct 28
2010May 11Nov 1Mar 28Nov 1
2009May 18Oct 12Apr 14Oct 12
2008May 1Oct 7Apr 30Oct 30
2007Apr 17Oct 29Apr 15Oct 29
2006May 7Oct 13Apr 28Oct 27
2005no dataOct 20no dataNov 17

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.