Last Frost Day

Frost history / Fulton, NY

Fulton, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00303087, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 360 ft, 43.305, -76.394. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 29Oct 27
EarliestApr 18 (2025)Oct 6 (2011)
LatestMay 18 (2023)Nov 14 (2014)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)2.9 days later per decade
Years with data1415

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 20 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.

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 3020202012: May 12013: Apr 282014: Apr 252015: Apr 262016: May 112017: May 112018: Apr 242019: Apr 302020: May 142021: Apr 232022: May 12023: May 182024: Apr 272025: Apr 18

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202011: Oct 62012: Oct 92013: Oct 292014: Nov 142015: Oct 182016: Oct 292017: Nov 82018: Oct 192019: Nov 82020: Oct 172021: Nov 52022: Oct 192023: Nov 22024: Oct 272025: Oct 10

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 10Apr 10Oct 27
2024Apr 27Oct 27Apr 26Nov 13
2023May 18Nov 2Apr 11Nov 13
2022May 1Oct 19Apr 19Nov 9
2021Apr 23Nov 5Apr 22Nov 6
2020May 14Oct 17Apr 24Nov 13
2019Apr 30Nov 8Apr 12Nov 8
2018Apr 24Oct 19Apr 12Nov 12
2017May 11Nov 8Apr 3Nov 8
2016May 11Oct 29Apr 27Nov 7
2015Apr 26Oct 18Apr 2Nov 17
2014Apr 25Nov 14Apr 20Nov 14
2013Apr 28Oct 29Apr 22Oct 29
2012May 1Oct 9Apr 30Oct 13
2011no dataOct 6no dataOct 28

"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.