Frost history / Brookneal, VA
Brookneal, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00441082, 1977 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 408 ft, 37.068, -78.952. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 21 | Oct 20 |
| Earliest | Mar 19 (1978) | Sep 22 (2006) |
| Latest | May 24 (2002) | Nov 5 (2016) |
| Trend | 1.6 days later per decade | 2.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 31 | 31 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Apr 17 | Oct 21 | Apr 10 | Oct 25 |
| 2024 | Apr 24 | Oct 18 | Apr 8 | Nov 22 |
| 2023 | Apr 12 | Oct 23 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 19 | Apr 20 | Oct 19 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | Nov 3 | Apr 24 | Nov 5 |
| 2020 | May 11 | Nov 3 | May 11 | Nov 18 |
| 2019 | Apr 4 | Oct 20 | Apr 4 | Nov 3 |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Apr 10 | Oct 27 | Apr 9 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 16 | Nov 5 | Apr 10 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 25 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | Apr 22 | Oct 22 | Apr 4 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 25 | Nov 2 | Mar 12 | Nov 3 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Oct 29 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | no data | Sep 22 | no data | Oct 14 |
| 2004 | May 5 | Oct 18 | Apr 29 | Nov 6 |
| 2003 | Apr 24 | Oct 3 | Apr 24 | Oct 3 |
| 2002 | May 24 | Oct 18 | May 22 | Oct 18 |
| 2000 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 5 | no data |
| 1999 | Apr 26 | Oct 22 | Apr 19 | Oct 25 |
| 1998 | Apr 29 | Oct 15 | Apr 7 | Oct 23 |
| 1997 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Oct 23 |
| 1986 | Apr 24 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 1985 | Apr 11 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 1984 | Apr 12 | Oct 3 | Mar 25 | Nov 7 |
| 1983 | Apr 22 | Oct 28 | Mar 31 | Nov 5 |
| 1982 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 23 | Nov 6 |
| 1981 | Apr 16 | Oct 20 | Apr 8 | Oct 20 |
| 1980 | Apr 18 | Oct 14 | Mar 24 | Nov 6 |
| 1979 | Apr 18 | Oct 14 | Mar 18 | Oct 27 |
| 1978 | Mar 19 | Oct 9 | Mar 19 | Dec 2 |
| 1977 | Apr 11 | Oct 18 | Apr 10 | Nov 12 |
"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.