Last Frost Day

Frost history / Dehart Dam, PA

Dehart Dam, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00362071, 1999 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 537 ft, 40.461, -76.749. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 30Oct 18
EarliestApr 15 (2000)Sep 22 (1999)
LatestMay 23 (2002)Oct 29 (2007)
Trend2.9 days later per decade7.2 days later per decade
Years with data1920

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30200020102000: Apr 152001: Apr 292002: May 232003: Apr 152004: Apr 172005: May 62006: Apr 292007: May 152008: Apr 302009: May 192010: May 112011: Apr 222012: Apr 302013: May 142014: Apr 282015: Apr 272016: Apr 242017: May 102018: May 2

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11200020101999: Sep 222000: Oct 82001: Oct 82002: Oct 192003: Oct 32004: Oct 182005: Oct 292006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 72009: Oct 142010: Oct 232011: Oct 282012: Oct 132013: Oct 232014: Oct 52015: Oct 182016: Oct 262017: Oct 182018: Oct 19

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
2018May 2Oct 19Apr 22Nov 11
2017May 10Oct 18Apr 9Nov 11
2016Apr 24Oct 26Apr 14Oct 26
2015Apr 27Oct 18Apr 27Oct 19
2014Apr 28Oct 5Apr 17Nov 8
2013May 14Oct 23May 14Oct 26
2012Apr 30Oct 13Apr 28Oct 13
2011Apr 22Oct 28Apr 6Oct 30
2010May 11Oct 23Apr 28Nov 2
2009May 19Oct 14Apr 13Oct 19
2008Apr 30Oct 7Apr 17Oct 20
2007May 15Oct 29Apr 14Nov 8
2006Apr 29Oct 13Apr 10Oct 13
2005May 6Oct 29Mar 19Nov 13
2004Apr 17Oct 18Apr 6Nov 10
2003Apr 15Oct 3Apr 2Nov 9
2002May 23Oct 19Apr 7Nov 8
2001Apr 29Oct 8Apr 20Oct 9
2000Apr 15Oct 8Apr 14Oct 9
1999no dataSep 22no dataNov 4

"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.