Frost history / Breaks Interstate Park, VA
Breaks Interstate Park, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00440982, 2000 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,893 ft, 37.289, -82.293. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 28 | Oct 19 |
| Earliest | Apr 1 (2003) | Oct 3 (2003) |
| Latest | May 23 (2002) | Nov 6 (2004) |
| Trend | 3.2 days later per decade | 12.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 10 | 11 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Apr 29 | Oct 30 | Apr 2 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 19 | Apr 17 | Oct 23 |
| 2007 | Apr 16 | Oct 29 | Apr 11 | Oct 30 |
| 2006 | Apr 11 | Oct 13 | Mar 28 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 27 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 |
| 2004 | Apr 29 | Nov 6 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Oct 3 | Apr 1 | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | May 23 | Nov 2 | Apr 8 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 27 | Oct 9 | Apr 20 | Oct 29 |
| 2000 | Apr 10 | Oct 8 | Apr 10 | Oct 10 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.