Last Frost Day

Frost history / Harrisburg 1 Ne, PA

Harrisburg 1 Ne, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00363698, 1999 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 420 ft, 40.282, -76.871. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 28
EarliestMar 28 (2010)Oct 6 (2020)
LatestMay 9 (2020)Nov 11 (2018)
Trend3.6 days later per decade2.2 days later per decade
Years with data2627

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 152000201020202000: Apr 142001: Apr 192002: Apr 92003: Apr 92004: Apr 72005: Apr 162006: Apr 102007: Apr 122008: Apr 42009: Apr 152010: Mar 282011: Mar 312012: Mar 282013: Apr 52014: Apr 192015: Apr 22016: Apr 202017: Apr 112018: Apr 222019: Apr 42020: May 92021: Apr 242022: Apr 202023: Apr 102024: Apr 222025: Apr 10

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201999: Nov 52000: Oct 92001: Oct 92002: Oct 222003: Nov 92004: Nov 92005: Nov 32006: Oct 142007: Oct 292008: Oct 192009: Oct 132010: Nov 22011: Oct 302012: Oct 132013: Oct 232014: Nov 82015: Oct 192016: Oct 262017: Nov 82018: Nov 112019: Nov 22020: Oct 62021: Oct 242022: Oct 212023: Nov 22024: Oct 282025: Nov 7

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
2025Apr 10Nov 7Apr 9Dec 2
2024Apr 22Oct 28Mar 25Nov 13
2023Apr 10Nov 2Mar 22Nov 3
2022Apr 20Oct 21Apr 20Nov 15
2021Apr 24Oct 24Apr 3Nov 4
2020May 9Oct 6Mar 23Oct 6
2019Apr 4Nov 2Mar 28Nov 9
2018Apr 22Nov 11Apr 9Nov 11
2017Apr 11Nov 8Apr 11Nov 11
2016Apr 20Oct 26Apr 14Oct 30
2015Apr 2Oct 19Mar 30Oct 19
2014Apr 19Nov 8Apr 17Nov 15
2013Apr 5Oct 23Apr 5Nov 4
2012Mar 28Oct 13Mar 12Nov 18
2011Mar 31Oct 30Mar 31Oct 31
2010Mar 28Nov 2Mar 28Nov 2
2009Apr 15Oct 13Mar 26Nov 29
2008Apr 4Oct 19Mar 31Nov 18
2007Apr 12Oct 29Mar 22Nov 8
2006Apr 10Oct 14Mar 26Oct 26
2005Apr 16Nov 3Apr 4Nov 3
2004Apr 7Nov 9Apr 5Nov 10
2003Apr 9Nov 9Apr 1Nov 9
2002Apr 9Oct 22Apr 8Nov 20
2001Apr 19Oct 9Mar 28Oct 9
2000Apr 14Oct 9Mar 18Nov 16
1999no dataNov 5no dataNov 18

"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.