Last Frost Day

Frost history / Cheviot, OH

Cheviot, OH: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00331515, 1988 to 2017, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 891 ft, 39.155, -84.623. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 15Oct 19
EarliestMar 28 (1992)Sep 30 (1993)
LatestMay 7 (1989)Nov 12 (2016)
Trend2.8 days earlier per decade8.6 days later per decade
Years with data2727

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 5.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 151990200020101989: May 71990: Apr 181992: Mar 281994: May 21995: Apr 251996: Apr 241997: Apr 181998: Apr 51999: Mar 282000: Apr 132001: Apr 192002: Apr 82003: Apr 242004: Apr 152005: May 32006: Apr 102007: Apr 112008: Apr 162009: Apr 82010: Mar 312011: May 62012: Apr 132013: Apr 222014: Apr 172015: Apr 52016: Apr 112017: Apr 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 261990200020101988: Oct 61991: Oct 71992: Oct 171993: Sep 301994: Oct 101995: Oct 251996: Oct 191997: Oct 221998: Oct 221999: Oct 182000: Oct 82001: Oct 72002: Nov 22003: Oct 32004: Nov 92005: Oct 282006: Oct 152007: Oct 142008: Oct 282009: Oct 182010: Nov 42011: Oct 292012: Nov 32013: Oct 232014: Nov 12015: Oct 182016: Nov 12

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
2017Apr 9no dataMar 24no data
2016Apr 11Nov 12Apr 10Nov 13
2015Apr 5Oct 18Mar 30Nov 22
2014Apr 17Nov 1Apr 17Nov 2
2013Apr 22Oct 23Apr 4Oct 26
2012Apr 13Nov 3Mar 11Nov 5
2011May 6Oct 29Apr 1Nov 18
2010Mar 31Nov 4Mar 28Nov 6
2009Apr 8Oct 18Mar 21Nov 28
2008Apr 16Oct 28Mar 25Nov 18
2007Apr 11Oct 14Apr 11Nov 16
2006Apr 10Oct 15Mar 28Oct 25
2005May 3Oct 28Mar 22Nov 17
2004Apr 15Nov 9Apr 6Dec 14
2003Apr 24Oct 3Mar 31Nov 8
2002Apr 8Nov 2Apr 7Nov 2
2001Apr 19Oct 7Mar 29Dec 10
2000Apr 13Oct 8Apr 9Nov 17
1999Mar 28Oct 18Mar 27Nov 3
1998Apr 5Oct 22Mar 24Nov 5
1997Apr 18Oct 22Apr 18Oct 23
1996Apr 24Oct 19Apr 10Nov 2
1995Apr 25Oct 25Apr 5Nov 4
1994May 2Oct 10May 2Oct 27
1993no dataSep 30no dataOct 23
1992Mar 28Oct 17Mar 28Oct 19
1991no dataOct 7no dataOct 20
1990Apr 18no dataApr 18no data
1989May 7no dataApr 12no data
1988no dataOct 6no dataOct 12

"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.