Last Frost Day

Frost history / S Mtn, PA

S Mtn, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00368308, 2006 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,520 ft, 39.851, -77.504. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 29Oct 20
EarliestApr 6 (2011)Oct 13 (2006)
LatestMay 14 (2013)Oct 31 (2020)
Trend2.6 days later per decade2.8 days later per decade
Years with data1514

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202006: Apr 302007: Apr 202008: Apr 302010: May 102011: Apr 62012: Apr 292013: May 142014: Apr 272015: Apr 252016: Apr 152017: May 92018: Apr 222019: Apr 292020: May 102022: Apr 28

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 182009: Oct 142010: Oct 302011: Oct 282012: Oct 132013: Oct 232014: Oct 312015: Oct 182016: Oct 152017: Oct 172018: Oct 222020: Oct 31

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
2022Apr 28no dataApr 28no data
2020May 10Oct 31May 10Nov 19
2019Apr 29no dataApr 3no data
2018Apr 22Oct 22Apr 21Nov 11
2017May 9Oct 17Mar 31Nov 10
2016Apr 15Oct 15Apr 14Oct 26
2015Apr 25Oct 18Apr 25Oct 18
2014Apr 27Oct 31Apr 17Nov 8
2013May 14Oct 23May 14Oct 26
2012Apr 29Oct 13Apr 14Nov 6
2011Apr 6Oct 28Apr 6Oct 29
2010May 10Oct 30Mar 28Nov 1
2009no dataOct 14no dataOct 19
2008Apr 30Oct 18Apr 16Oct 20
2007Apr 20Oct 29Apr 16Oct 29
2006Apr 30Oct 13Apr 10Nov 3

"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.