Last Frost Day

Frost history / PORTLAND1 Sw, NY

PORTLAND1 Sw, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00306747, 2012 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 808 ft, 42.372, -79.487. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 26Nov 2
EarliestApr 17 (2025)Oct 13 (2012)
LatestMay 13 (2020)Nov 17 (2020)
Trend2.2 days earlier per decade2.4 days later per decade
Years with data1414

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.

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: Apr 292013: Apr 262014: Apr 242015: Apr 262016: Apr 272017: May 92018: Apr 222019: Apr 292020: May 132021: Apr 232022: Apr 302023: Apr 272024: Apr 262025: Apr 17

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202012: Oct 132013: Oct 292014: Nov 132015: Oct 192016: Nov 122017: Nov 82018: Nov 42019: Nov 72020: Nov 172021: Nov 52022: Oct 282023: Nov 12024: Oct 272025: Oct 27

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 17Oct 27Apr 17Nov 10
2024Apr 26Oct 27Mar 30Nov 13
2023Apr 27Nov 1Apr 10Nov 20
2022Apr 30Oct 28Apr 29Nov 18
2021Apr 23Nov 5Apr 3Dec 7
2020May 13Nov 17May 13Nov 18
2019Apr 29Nov 7Apr 4Nov 9
2018Apr 22Nov 4Apr 21Nov 10
2017May 9Nov 8Mar 24Nov 8
2016Apr 27Nov 12Apr 15Nov 21
2015Apr 26Oct 19Apr 26Nov 23
2014Apr 24Nov 13Apr 24Nov 16
2013Apr 26Oct 29Apr 6Oct 29
2012Apr 29Oct 13Apr 29Nov 8

"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.