Ashland, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00440327, 1953 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 220 ft, 37.755, -77.485. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 23
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Oct 3 (2003)
Latest	May 18 (1973)	Nov 23 (1985)
Trend	2.4 days earlier per decade	2.6 days later per decade
Years with data	65	70

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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)

First fall frost (32°F)

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

Year	Last spring 32°F	First fall 32°F	Last spring 28°F	First fall 28°F
2025	Apr 9	Oct 25	Apr 9	Nov 11
2024	Apr 6	Nov 13	Mar 25	Nov 22
2023	Apr 10	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Apr 20	Oct 20	Mar 29	Nov 15
2021	Apr 22	Nov 5	Apr 3	Nov 5
2020	May 10	Nov 2	Mar 8	Nov 18
2019	Apr 3	Nov 2	Apr 3	Nov 4
2018	Apr 11	Oct 22	Mar 27	Nov 11
2017	Apr 8	Nov 11	Mar 23	Nov 11
2016	Apr 10	Nov 8	Apr 10	Nov 13
2015	Apr 5	Oct 18	Mar 29	Nov 15
2014	Apr 17	Nov 3	Mar 27	Nov 3
2013	Apr 4	Oct 25	Apr 4	Nov 9
2012	Mar 11	Nov 3	Mar 6	Nov 6
2011	Apr 6	Oct 30	Mar 29	Nov 12
2010	Mar 28	Oct 30	Mar 28	Nov 28
2009	Mar 31	Nov 7	Mar 25	Dec 6
2008	Apr 16	Oct 30	Mar 25	Nov 11
2007	Apr 10	Oct 30	Apr 10	Nov 8
2006	Apr 10	Oct 15	Mar 27	Nov 3
2005	Apr 17	Oct 27	Mar 22	Nov 18
2004	Apr 28	Nov 6	Apr 10	Nov 15
2003	Apr 24	Oct 3	Mar 31	Oct 24
2002	Apr 7	Nov 1	Apr 7	Nov 2
2001	Apr 19	Oct 9	Apr 19	Oct 29
2000	Mar 19	Oct 10	Mar 18	Nov 6
1999	Apr 13	Oct 25	Mar 23	Nov 4
1998	Apr 6	Oct 23	Mar 25	Nov 5
1997	Apr 15	Oct 23	Apr 10	Oct 23
1996	Apr 18	Oct 5	Apr 10	Nov 3
1995	Apr 15	Nov 4	Apr 5	Nov 5
1994	Apr 8	Oct 28	Mar 20	Nov 12
1993	Apr 8	Oct 24	Mar 20	Nov 2
1992	Apr 6	Oct 20	Apr 6	Oct 20
1991	Apr 4	Oct 8	Apr 3	Nov 5
1990	Apr 19	Oct 27	Apr 13	Nov 13
1989	Apr 14	Nov 4	Apr 12	Nov 4
1988	Apr 20	Oct 9	Mar 28	Oct 14
1987	Apr 6	Oct 9	Apr 6	Oct 22
1986	Apr 23	Nov 13	Mar 25	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Nov 23	Apr 10	Dec 3
1984	Apr 11	Nov 7	Mar 24	Nov 7
1983	Apr 21	Oct 28	Apr 21	Oct 31
1982	Apr 23	Oct 17	Apr 10	Oct 17
1981	Apr 26	Oct 20	Apr 7	Oct 20
1980	Apr 17	Oct 14	Mar 26	Oct 27
1979	Apr 10	Oct 10	Apr 7	Oct 27
1978	Apr 23	Oct 9	Mar 18	Nov 26
1977	Apr 10	Oct 18	Apr 10	Nov 12
1976	Apr 28	Oct 19	Apr 13	Oct 23
1975	Apr 14	Oct 31	Apr 14	Oct 31
1974	Apr 20	Oct 4	Apr 10	Oct 4
1973	May 18	Oct 18	Apr 12	Nov 7
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 10	Oct 20
1971	no data	Nov 5	no data	Nov 8
1969	Apr 21	Oct 18	Mar 30	Oct 24
1968	no data	Oct 6	no data	Oct 31
1967	Apr 29	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
1966	May 11	Oct 7	Apr 11	Oct 21
1965	Apr 17	Oct 5	Apr 5	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 8	Apr 10	Oct 12
1963	Apr 14	Oct 14	Mar 23	Oct 31
1962	no data	Oct 24	no data	Oct 25
1961	May 3	Oct 28	Apr 3	Oct 28
1960	Apr 20	Oct 21	Apr 11	Oct 26
1959	no data	Oct 26	no data	Nov 3
1957	Apr 16	Oct 13	Apr 15	Oct 29
1956	May 17	Oct 11	Apr 25	Nov 11
1954	Apr 13	Oct 8	Apr 4	Nov 1
1953	no data	Oct 7	no data	Nov 7

"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.