Last Frost Day

Frost history / Stormville, NY

Stormville, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00308304, 1990 to 2007, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 915 ft, 41.533, -73.733. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 25Oct 22
EarliestApr 11 (2007)Sep 29 (2000)
LatestMay 7 (1996)Nov 11 (2005)
Trend7.0 days earlier per decade8.9 days later per decade
Years with data1717

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15199020001991: Apr 191992: Apr 291993: Apr 281994: Apr 231995: May 71996: May 71997: Apr 201998: Apr 281999: Apr 252000: Apr 182001: Apr 282002: May 12003: Apr 182004: Apr 162005: Apr 152006: Apr 262007: Apr 11

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26199020001990: Oct 271991: Sep 301992: Oct 11993: Oct 101994: Nov 111995: Nov 41996: Oct 41997: Oct 221998: Nov 31999: Oct 72000: Sep 292001: Oct 82002: Oct 222003: Oct 202004: Nov 42005: Nov 112006: 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
2007Apr 11no dataApr 11no data
2006Apr 26Oct 27Mar 23Nov 4
2005Apr 15Nov 11Mar 26Nov 18
2004Apr 16Nov 4Apr 6Nov 9
2003Apr 18Oct 20Apr 8Nov 8
2002May 1Oct 22Apr 7Oct 24
2001Apr 28Oct 8Apr 19Nov 11
2000Apr 18Sep 29Apr 14Nov 19
1999Apr 25Oct 7Apr 11Nov 8
1998Apr 28Nov 3Mar 25Nov 4
1997Apr 20Oct 22Apr 15Oct 23
1996May 7Oct 4Apr 9Nov 3
1995May 7Nov 4Apr 17Nov 6
1994Apr 23Nov 11Apr 22Nov 11
1993Apr 28Oct 10Apr 7Oct 11
1992Apr 29Oct 1Apr 15Oct 20
1991Apr 19Sep 30Apr 3Oct 29
1990no dataOct 27no dataOct 27

"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.