Bland, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00440792, 1990 to 2011, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,000 ft, 37.100, -81.116. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	May 11	Oct 4
Earliest	Apr 25 (2003)	Sep 17 (2000)
Latest	May 29 (1994)	Oct 27 (2005)
Trend	0.9 days later per decade	6.9 days later per decade
Years with data	21	22

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 30 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.

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)

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
2011	May 8	Oct 22	Apr 7	Oct 22
2010	May 11	Oct 15	May 10	Oct 23
2009	May 21	Oct 1	May 20	Oct 19
2008	May 1	Oct 19	May 1	Oct 19
2007	May 20	Oct 13	Apr 11	Oct 29
2006	May 25	Sep 21	Apr 11	Oct 13
2005	May 8	Oct 27	May 4	Oct 27
2004	May 5	Oct 13	May 5	Nov 6
2003	Apr 25	Sep 30	Apr 25	Oct 3
2002	May 24	Oct 18	May 23	Nov 2
2001	May 15	Oct 1	May 14	Oct 8
2000	May 16	Sep 17	Apr 28	Oct 8
1999	May 4	Sep 23	Apr 15	Oct 21
1998	Apr 29	Oct 15	Apr 13	Oct 23
1997	May 23	Oct 3	May 12	Oct 16
1996	May 15	Oct 5	May 15	Oct 12
1995	May 7	Oct 17	Apr 27	Oct 17
1994	May 29	Oct 11	May 29	Oct 11
1993	May 22	Oct 1	Apr 29	Oct 1
1992	May 2	Sep 30	Apr 30	Oct 18
1991	Apr 26	Sep 27	Apr 25	Oct 8
1990	no data	Sep 25	no data	Oct 20

"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.