Frost history / Columbus Wcmh, OH
Columbus Wcmh, OH: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00331785, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 740 ft, 40.025, -83.027. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 25 | Oct 22 |
| Earliest | Apr 12 (2012) | Oct 8 (2012) |
| Latest | May 16 (2016) | Nov 5 (2016) |
| Trend | 2.1 days earlier per decade | 0.9 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 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)
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 17 | Oct 25 | Apr 12 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 25 | Oct 17 | Mar 28 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | Apr 27 | Oct 23 | Mar 30 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 20 | Oct 8 | Apr 20 | Nov 17 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 3 | Apr 3 | Nov 5 |
| 2020 | May 12 | Oct 17 | Apr 22 | Oct 31 |
| 2019 | Apr 16 | Oct 19 | Apr 2 | Nov 6 |
| 2018 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 | Apr 20 | Nov 8 |
| 2017 | May 8 | Oct 26 | Mar 23 | Oct 26 |
| 2016 | May 16 | Nov 5 | Apr 10 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 24 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 26 | Oct 24 | Apr 21 | Oct 27 |
| 2012 | Apr 12 | Oct 8 | Apr 7 | Nov 5 |
| 2011 | May 5 | Oct 22 | Apr 3 | Oct 29 |
"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.