Benton 3 Ne, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00360582, 2001 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,095 ft, 41.232, -76.342. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	May 12	Oct 11
Earliest	Apr 23 (2011)	Oct 3 (2003)
Latest	May 23 (2006)	Oct 31 (2014)
Trend	1.4 days earlier per decade	8.7 days later per decade
Years with data	14	13

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 and the median first fall date is Oct 22.

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
2016	May 17	no data	Apr 11	no data
2015	Apr 27	Oct 18	Apr 26	Oct 18
2014	May 7	Oct 31	Apr 19	Nov 8
2013	May 15	no data	May 15	no data
2012	no data	Oct 8	no data	Oct 13
2011	Apr 23	Oct 28	Apr 22	Oct 28
2010	May 11	Oct 10	May 10	Oct 30
2009	May 19	Oct 11	May 19	Oct 19
2008	May 1	Oct 7	Apr 30	Oct 18
2007	May 14	Oct 29	Apr 14	Oct 29
2006	May 23	no data	Apr 26	no data
2005	May 13	Oct 24	May 13	Oct 28
2004	Apr 28	Oct 6	Apr 16	Nov 4
2003	Apr 24	Oct 3	Apr 14	Oct 3
2002	May 22	Oct 15	May 21	Oct 22
2001	no data	Oct 8	no data	Oct 8

"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.