Last Frost Day

Frost history / Clarksville, VA

Clarksville, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00441746, 1952 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 330 ft, 36.621, -78.551. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 30Nov 4
EarliestMar 7 (2025)Oct 20 (1952)
LatestApr 23 (2021)Nov 19 (2020)
Trend3.8 days earlier per decade1.4 days later per decade
Years with data2020

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.

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 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 3019601970198019902000201020201953: Apr 202006: Apr 102007: Apr 102008: Apr 172009: Mar 222010: Mar 92011: Mar 292012: Mar 142013: Mar 292014: Apr 172015: Mar 302016: Apr 112018: Apr 82019: Apr 42020: Mar 92021: Apr 232022: Mar 302023: Mar 222024: Mar 202025: Mar 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2619601970198019902000201020201952: Oct 201953: Nov 52005: Oct 302006: Oct 242007: Oct 302008: Oct 302009: Nov 72010: Nov 72011: Oct 302012: Nov 62013: Oct 262014: Nov 32017: Nov 112018: Nov 112019: Nov 92020: Nov 192021: Nov 52022: Oct 212023: Nov 22025: Nov 11

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
2025Mar 7Nov 11Mar 4Nov 11
2024Mar 20no dataFeb 21no data
2023Mar 22Nov 2Mar 22Nov 3
2022Mar 30Oct 21Mar 29Nov 18
2021Apr 23Nov 5Apr 4Nov 14
2020Mar 9Nov 19Mar 9Dec 3
2019Apr 4Nov 9Mar 8Nov 9
2018Apr 8Nov 11Mar 25Nov 11
2017no dataNov 11no dataNov 11
2016Apr 11no dataApr 11no data
2015Mar 30no dataMar 30no data
2014Apr 17Nov 3Mar 28Nov 15
2013Mar 29Oct 26Mar 23Oct 27
2012Mar 14Nov 6Mar 8Nov 23
2011Mar 29Oct 30Mar 4Nov 19
2010Mar 9Nov 7Mar 7Nov 29
2009Mar 22Nov 7Mar 6Dec 7
2008Apr 17Oct 30Mar 10Oct 30
2007Apr 10Oct 30Apr 8Nov 24
2006Apr 10Oct 24Mar 27Nov 4
2005no dataOct 30no dataNov 19
1953Apr 20Nov 5Mar 17Nov 6
1952no dataOct 20no dataOct 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.