Last Frost Day

Frost history / Salamanca 2, NY

Salamanca 2, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00307400, 1991 to 2007, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,415 ft, 42.151, -78.720. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 25Sep 25
EarliestApr 30 (1998)Sep 4 (1997)
LatestJun 3 (1993)Oct 20 (2005)
Trend3.2 days earlier per decade11.6 days later per decade
Years with data1515

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 4.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 1420001992: May 301993: Jun 31994: May 281995: May 161996: Jun 11997: May 281998: Apr 301999: May 102000: May 172001: May 312003: May 232004: May 302005: May 192006: May 252007: May 21

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 2720001991: Sep 201992: Sep 241993: Sep 201994: Oct 21995: Sep 111996: Oct 41997: Sep 41998: Oct 21999: Sep 222000: Sep 252001: Sep 152002: Oct 82004: Oct 42005: Oct 202006: Sep 30

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
2007May 21no dataMay 13no data
2006May 25Sep 30May 24Oct 13
2005May 19Oct 20May 18Oct 20
2004May 30Oct 4May 6Oct 5
2003May 23no dataApr 28no data
2002no dataOct 8no dataOct 8
2001May 31Sep 15May 31Sep 30
2000May 17Sep 25May 16Sep 29
1999May 10Sep 22Apr 28Oct 7
1998Apr 30Oct 2Apr 28Oct 23
1997May 28Sep 4May 23Oct 17
1996Jun 1Oct 4May 31Oct 4
1995May 16Sep 11May 8Sep 23
1994May 28Oct 2May 14Oct 3
1993Jun 3Sep 20May 30Sep 20
1992May 30Sep 24May 28Sep 24
1991no dataSep 20no dataSep 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 to 2020 frost probabilities.