Last Frost Day

Frost history / Bremo Bluff, VA

Bremo Bluff, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00440993, 1992 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 225 ft, 37.709, -78.289. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 24Oct 18
EarliestApr 1 (2000)Oct 3 (2003)
LatestMay 22 (2002)Nov 2 (2012)
Trend5.3 days earlier per decade2.5 days later per decade
Years with data2123

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30200020101992: Apr 291993: Apr 241994: Apr 231995: Apr 271996: May 131997: May 111998: Apr 281999: Apr 262000: Apr 12001: Apr 292002: May 222003: Apr 242004: Apr 282007: Apr 92008: Apr 172009: Apr 172012: Apr 122013: May 142014: Apr 212015: Apr 132016: Apr 15

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11200020101992: Oct 181993: Oct 231994: Oct 121995: Oct 171996: Oct 51997: Oct 231999: Oct 152000: Oct 82001: Oct 72002: Oct 182003: Oct 32004: Oct 172005: Oct 272006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 202009: Oct 192011: Oct 292012: Nov 22013: Oct 252014: Oct 62015: Oct 182016: Oct 13

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
2016Apr 15Oct 13Apr 11Nov 8
2015Apr 13Oct 18Apr 6Oct 19
2014Apr 21Oct 6Apr 18Nov 3
2013May 14Oct 25Apr 4Oct 26
2012Apr 12Nov 2Mar 6Nov 5
2011no dataOct 29no dataOct 30
2009Apr 17Oct 19Mar 24Nov 7
2008Apr 17Oct 20Mar 23Oct 30
2007Apr 9Oct 29Apr 9Nov 8
2006no dataOct 13no dataOct 26
2005no dataOct 27no dataOct 30
2004Apr 28Oct 17Apr 28Nov 8
2003Apr 24Oct 3Apr 24Oct 3
2002May 22Oct 18Apr 24Nov 1
2001Apr 29Oct 7Apr 19Oct 8
2000Apr 1Oct 8Apr 1Oct 9
1999Apr 26Oct 15Apr 25Nov 3
1998Apr 28no dataMar 25no data
1997May 11Oct 23Apr 21Oct 23
1996May 13Oct 5May 1Oct 5
1995Apr 27Oct 17Apr 27Oct 30
1994Apr 23Oct 12Apr 8Oct 27
1993Apr 24Oct 23Apr 8Oct 29
1992Apr 29Oct 18Apr 6Oct 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.