Last Frost Day

Frost history / Wellsville, NY

Wellsville, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00309072, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,510 ft, 42.117, -77.948. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 19Oct 10
EarliestApr 27 (2024)Sep 19 (2020)
LatestJun 15 (2020)Oct 29 (2007)
Trend5.3 days earlier per decade0.8 days later per decade
Years with data2122

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 2 and the median first fall date is Oct 18.

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 14Jun 29201020202005: May 192006: May 252007: May 212008: May 302009: May 202010: May 122011: May 102012: May 182013: May 282014: May 202015: May 242016: May 202017: May 102018: May 22019: Apr 302020: Jun 152021: May 152022: May 102023: May 272024: Apr 272025: May 11

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202004: Oct 52005: Oct 212006: Sep 302007: Oct 292008: Oct 42009: Oct 22010: Oct 102011: Oct 62012: Sep 212013: Oct 102014: Oct 52015: Oct 122016: Oct 112017: Oct 12018: Oct 172019: Oct 62020: Sep 192021: Oct 192022: Oct 112023: Oct 202024: Oct 112025: 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
2025May 11Oct 10Apr 18Oct 10
2024Apr 27Oct 11Apr 27Oct 19
2023May 27Oct 20May 19Nov 12
2022May 10Oct 11May 1Oct 21
2021May 15Oct 19Apr 24Nov 5
2020Jun 15Sep 19May 14Sep 22
2019Apr 30Oct 6Apr 30Oct 19
2018May 2Oct 17May 1Oct 19
2017May 10Oct 1Apr 24Oct 17
2016May 20Oct 11Apr 25Oct 12
2015May 24Oct 12May 24Oct 19
2014May 20Oct 5May 18Oct 12
2013May 28Oct 10May 15Oct 28
2012May 18Sep 21May 1Oct 13
2011May 10Oct 6Apr 23Oct 28
2010May 12Oct 10May 12Oct 10
2009May 20Oct 2May 20Oct 12
2008May 30Oct 4May 2Oct 7
2007May 21Oct 29May 7Oct 29
2006May 25Sep 30May 8Oct 16
2005May 19Oct 21May 14Oct 28
2004no dataOct 5no dataOct 7

"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.