Frost history / Shrub Oak, NY
Shrub Oak, NY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00307742, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 462 ft, 41.333, -73.837. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 13 | Oct 3 |
| Earliest | Apr 19 (2025) | Sep 3 (1958) |
| Latest | Jun 18 (1958) | Nov 6 (2021) |
| Trend | 2.3 days earlier per decade | 4.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 29 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 16.
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 | Apr 19 | Oct 10 | Apr 11 | Nov 7 |
| 2024 | Apr 28 | Oct 28 | Mar 26 | Nov 4 |
| 2023 | May 19 | Nov 2 | Apr 11 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | May 1 | Oct 9 | Apr 19 | Oct 31 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 6 | Apr 4 | Nov 6 |
| 2020 | May 15 | Oct 18 | Apr 24 | Oct 31 |
| 2019 | Apr 30 | Oct 20 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 |
| 2018 | Apr 25 | Oct 19 | Apr 21 | Nov 9 |
| 2017 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 1971 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 1970 | May 7 | Oct 17 | Apr 12 | Oct 28 |
| 1969 | May 27 | Oct 10 | May 6 | Oct 16 |
| 1968 | May 27 | Oct 5 | May 8 | Oct 6 |
| 1967 | May 17 | Sep 24 | May 17 | Oct 14 |
| 1966 | May 15 | Sep 26 | May 11 | Oct 11 |
| 1965 | Apr 30 | Sep 28 | Apr 25 | Oct 6 |
| 1964 | May 4 | Sep 16 | Apr 12 | Oct 6 |
| 1963 | May 25 | Sep 14 | May 24 | Sep 24 |
| 1962 | May 13 | Sep 21 | May 10 | Sep 21 |
| 1961 | May 31 | Sep 30 | May 1 | Nov 8 |
| 1960 | May 3 | Oct 2 | Apr 20 | Oct 21 |
| 1959 | May 9 | Sep 17 | Apr 24 | Oct 16 |
| 1958 | Jun 18 | Sep 3 | May 14 | Sep 13 |
| 1957 | May 22 | Sep 25 | May 3 | Sep 27 |
| 1956 | May 26 | Sep 10 | May 25 | Oct 6 |
| 1955 | May 20 | Sep 22 | May 18 | Oct 23 |
| 1954 | May 14 | Oct 7 | Apr 13 | Oct 7 |
| 1953 | Apr 22 | Sep 23 | Apr 22 | Oct 8 |
| 1952 | May 17 | Oct 4 | Apr 17 | Oct 8 |
| 1951 | May 13 | no data | Apr 7 | no data |
"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.