Last Frost Day

Frost history / Chandlers Valley 1SE, PA

Chandlers Valley 1SE, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00361362, 2005 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,490 ft, 41.930, -79.297. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 20Oct 3
EarliestMay 1 (2022)Sep 17 (2007)
LatestJun 2 (2009)Oct 19 (2021)
Trend10.8 days earlier per decade4.9 days later per decade
Years with data1718

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 14 and the median first fall date is Oct 15.

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 30Jun 14201020202005: May 202006: May 252007: May 202008: May 312009: Jun 22010: May 142011: May 102012: May 182013: May 282014: May 202015: May 242016: May 202017: May 102018: May 22019: May 162020: May 142022: May 1

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27201020202005: Oct 12006: Sep 302007: Sep 172008: Oct 42009: Oct 22010: Oct 102011: Oct 62012: Sep 202013: Sep 172014: Oct 102015: Oct 112016: Oct 102017: Oct 12018: Oct 162019: Oct 52020: Sep 192021: Oct 192022: Sep 30

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
2022May 1Sep 30May 1Oct 16
2021no dataOct 19no dataNov 4
2020May 14Sep 19May 14Sep 19
2019May 16Oct 5Apr 30Oct 6
2018May 2Oct 16May 2Oct 19
2017May 10Oct 1May 10Oct 17
2016May 20Oct 10Apr 25Oct 11
2015May 24Oct 11May 24Oct 19
2014May 20Oct 10May 6Oct 12
2013May 28Sep 17May 27Oct 28
2012May 18Sep 20May 18Oct 9
2011May 10Oct 6Apr 22Oct 23
2010May 14Oct 10May 12Oct 13
2009Jun 2Oct 2May 20Oct 12
2008May 31Oct 4May 31Oct 4
2007May 20Sep 17May 15Oct 29
2006May 25Sep 30May 24Oct 8
2005May 20Oct 1May 19Oct 30

"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.