Last Frost Day

Frost history / Laurel Summit, PA

Laurel Summit, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00364839, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,730 ft, 40.169, -79.141. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 6Oct 18
EarliestApr 19 (2007)Oct 2 (2003)
LatestMay 26 (2013)Nov 6 (2025)
Trend4.9 days earlier per decade6.4 days later per decade
Years with data2224

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 26 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30Jun 14201020202002: May 222003: Apr 282005: May 52006: May 242007: Apr 192008: May 132009: May 192010: May 122011: May 62012: Apr 292013: May 262014: May 62015: Apr 282016: May 172017: May 102018: May 12019: Apr 302021: May 132022: May 12023: May 42024: Apr 232025: Apr 28

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202001: Oct 72002: Oct 142003: Oct 22004: Oct 182005: Oct 252006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 32009: Oct 142010: Oct 222011: Oct 22012: Oct 82013: Oct 232014: Oct 192015: Oct 182016: Oct 112017: Oct 172018: Oct 182020: Oct 312021: Nov 22022: Oct 182023: Oct 232024: Oct 162025: Nov 6

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 28Nov 6Apr 18Nov 10
2024Apr 23Oct 16Apr 7Nov 13
2023May 4Oct 23Apr 26Oct 31
2022May 1Oct 18Apr 30Oct 19
2021May 13Nov 2Apr 27Nov 3
2020no dataOct 31no dataOct 31
2019Apr 30no dataApr 3no data
2018May 1Oct 18Apr 30Oct 22
2017May 10Oct 17May 10Nov 1
2016May 17Oct 11Apr 14Nov 12
2015Apr 28Oct 18Apr 26Oct 18
2014May 6Oct 19Apr 25Nov 2
2013May 26Oct 23May 14Oct 25
2012Apr 29Oct 8Apr 29Oct 13
2011May 6Oct 2Apr 7Oct 28
2010May 12Oct 22Apr 29Oct 30
2009May 19Oct 14Apr 14Oct 19
2008May 13Oct 3Apr 17Oct 3
2007Apr 19Oct 29Apr 17Nov 6
2006May 24Oct 13Apr 27Oct 13
2005May 5Oct 25May 5Oct 25
2004no dataOct 18no dataNov 9
2003Apr 28Oct 2Apr 25Oct 3
2002May 22Oct 14May 22Oct 30
2001no dataOct 7no dataOct 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.