Last Frost Day

Frost history / Willsboro 1 N, NY

Willsboro 1 N, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00309495, 1993 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 180 ft, 44.384, -73.382. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 7Oct 9
EarliestApr 27 (1998)Sep 30 (1993)
LatestMay 20 (2000)Oct 21 (2005)
Trend1.6 days earlier per decade7.4 days later per decade
Years with data1111

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 25 and the median first fall date is Oct 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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3020001993: May 141996: Apr 291997: May 91998: Apr 271999: May 142000: May 202001: May 62003: May 42004: May 82005: May 52007: May 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 2720001993: Sep 301994: Oct 121996: Oct 51998: Oct 61999: Oct 62001: Oct 92002: Oct 152003: Oct 32005: Oct 212006: Oct 132009: Oct 14

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
2009no dataOct 14no dataOct 14
2007May 7no dataApr 12no data
2006no dataOct 13no dataOct 22
2005May 5Oct 21Apr 22Oct 30
2004May 8no dataApr 12no data
2003May 4Oct 3Apr 25Oct 20
2002no dataOct 15no dataOct 15
2001May 6Oct 9Apr 29Oct 9
2000May 20no dataApr 14no data
1999May 14Oct 6Apr 16Oct 8
1998Apr 27Oct 6Apr 26Nov 18
1997May 9no dataMay 5no data
1996Apr 29Oct 5Apr 28Oct 5
1994no dataOct 12no dataOct 12
1993May 14Sep 30Apr 28Oct 1

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.