Edinburg, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00442663, 1996 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 928 ft, 38.803, -78.585. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 29	Oct 16
Earliest	Apr 1 (2003)	Oct 3 (2003)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Oct 29 (2007)
Trend	1.5 days later per decade	8.0 days later per decade
Years with data	18	19

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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.

Chart

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
2014	Apr 24	Oct 27	Apr 18	Nov 8
2013	May 14	Oct 21	Apr 26	Oct 25
2012	Apr 14	Oct 13	Apr 8	Oct 13
2011	Apr 7	Oct 23	Mar 30	Oct 30
2010	May 10	Oct 23	Mar 28	Nov 2
2009	May 19	Oct 19	Apr 12	Oct 19
2008	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 17	Oct 19
2007	May 8	Oct 29	Apr 11	Oct 29
2006	Apr 30	Oct 13	Apr 10	Oct 15
2005	May 7	Oct 27	May 3	Nov 12
2004	Apr 17	Oct 18	Apr 6	Nov 9
2003	Apr 1	Oct 3	Apr 1	Oct 3
2002	May 23	Oct 15	Apr 24	Nov 2
2001	Apr 29	Oct 7	Apr 26	Oct 8
2000	Apr 14	Oct 8	Apr 14	Oct 29
1999	May 3	Oct 15	Mar 31	Nov 5
1998	Apr 29	Oct 15	Apr 6	Nov 5
1997	Apr 22	Oct 16	Apr 21	Oct 23
1996	no data	Oct 5	no data	Nov 3

"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.