Van Wert 1 S, OH: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00338609, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 790 ft, 40.849, -84.581. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 27	Oct 16
Earliest	Apr 3 (2011)	Sep 17 (1959)
Latest	May 27 (1961)	Nov 12 (2016)
Trend	2.2 days earlier per decade	2.4 days later per decade
Years with data	73	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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.

Chart

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 12	Oct 25	Apr 9	Nov 10
2024	Apr 6	Oct 17	Mar 28	Nov 29
2023	Apr 26	Oct 31	Mar 30	Oct 31
2022	Apr 27	Oct 20	Apr 27	Nov 17
2021	May 1	Oct 27	Apr 23	Nov 3
2020	May 12	Oct 16	May 9	Nov 2
2019	Apr 15	Nov 1	Apr 2	Nov 1
2018	Apr 29	Oct 16	Apr 18	Nov 10
2017	May 8	Oct 26	Mar 24	Nov 10
2016	Apr 15	Nov 12	Apr 10	Nov 12
2015	Apr 28	Oct 18	Apr 4	Oct 18
2014	Apr 17	Oct 23	Apr 16	Nov 2
2013	Apr 26	Oct 22	Apr 21	Oct 25
2012	Apr 27	Oct 8	Mar 10	Oct 31
2011	Apr 3	Oct 22	Apr 3	Oct 30
2010	May 9	Oct 22	Mar 31	Nov 2
2009	Apr 16	Oct 17	Apr 8	Oct 18
2008	Apr 30	Oct 22	Apr 14	Oct 30
2007	Apr 16	Oct 28	Apr 16	Nov 23
2006	Apr 26	Oct 12	Apr 9	Oct 25
2005	May 4	Oct 27	Mar 18	Oct 29
2004	Apr 28	no data	Apr 5	no data
2003	Apr 23	Oct 2	Apr 6	Nov 8
2002	no data	Oct 14	no data	Nov 2
2001	Apr 19	Oct 7	Apr 2	Dec 10
2000	Apr 12	Oct 29	Apr 9	Nov 18
1999	Apr 24	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 17
1998	Apr 6	Nov 4	Mar 24	Nov 4
1997	Apr 20	Oct 22	Apr 18	Oct 22
1996	Apr 17	Oct 12	Apr 11	Nov 1
1995	Apr 11	Sep 23	Apr 6	Nov 4
1994	Apr 23	Oct 26	Apr 8	Nov 22
1993	Apr 22	Oct 10	Apr 4	Nov 1
1992	Apr 13	Oct 18	Apr 6	Oct 19
1991	Apr 12	Oct 16	Apr 2	Oct 16
1990	Apr 19	Oct 26	Apr 18	Oct 29
1989	May 7	Oct 4	Apr 11	Oct 9
1988	Apr 25	no data	Apr 19	no data
1987	Apr 9	Oct 4	Apr 4	Nov 6
1986	Apr 23	no data	Apr 23	no data
1985	Apr 11	Oct 2	Apr 10	Nov 21
1984	Apr 21	Nov 2	Apr 1	Nov 3
1983	May 8	Sep 23	Apr 19	Nov 3
1982	no data	Oct 16	no data	Oct 16
1981	May 7	Oct 3	Apr 21	Oct 24
1980	May 8	Oct 5	Apr 16	Oct 13
1979	May 5	Oct 14	Apr 10	Nov 3
1978	May 3	Oct 17	Apr 22	Oct 24
1977	Apr 30	Oct 13	Apr 29	Oct 17
1976	May 8	Oct 18	Apr 13	Oct 18
1975	Apr 21	Oct 3	Apr 13	Oct 30
1974	May 7	Sep 23	May 7	Oct 2
1973	May 18	Oct 17	Apr 14	Nov 6
1972	Apr 26	Oct 15	Apr 25	Oct 19
1971	May 4	Nov 4	Apr 7	Nov 7
1970	May 6	Oct 16	Apr 11	Nov 15
1969	May 11	Oct 15	Apr 20	Oct 18
1968	May 6	Oct 5	Apr 11	Oct 30
1967	May 16	Oct 20	Apr 25	Oct 22
1966	May 10	Oct 2	May 10	Oct 25
1965	Apr 29	Oct 4	Apr 3	Oct 5
1964	Apr 9	Oct 7	Apr 9	Oct 7
1963	May 23	Oct 30	May 1	Oct 30
1962	Apr 20	Oct 24	Apr 20	Oct 25
1961	May 27	Sep 29	Apr 16	Oct 27
1960	May 8	Oct 1	Apr 10	Oct 22
1959	May 16	Sep 17	May 16	Oct 28
1958	Apr 30	Oct 2	Apr 9	Nov 7
1957	May 5	Oct 11	Apr 15	Nov 6
1956	May 8	Oct 10	Apr 23	Nov 9
1955	May 9	Oct 22	Apr 8	Nov 3
1954	May 10	Oct 19	Apr 9	Nov 1
1953	Apr 21	Oct 7	Apr 21	Nov 5
1952	Apr 16	Oct 3	Apr 11	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Sep 29	Apr 20	Sep 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.