Frost history / Fredericksburg Sewage, VA
Fredericksburg Sewage, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00443204, 1995 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 60 ft, 38.288, -77.451. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 5 | Nov 1 |
| Earliest | Mar 12 (2012) | Oct 9 (2001) |
| Latest | Apr 23 (2007) | Nov 9 (2016) |
| Trend | 1.2 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 23 | 23 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mar 28 | Oct 20 | Mar 26 | Dec 2 |
| 2023 | Apr 13 | Nov 2 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 2018 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 9 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 8 |
| 2013 | Apr 5 | Oct 25 | Apr 5 | Nov 9 |
| 2012 | Mar 12 | Nov 6 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 |
| 2011 | Apr 9 | Oct 30 | Mar 30 | Nov 12 |
| 2010 | Mar 29 | Nov 7 | Mar 10 | Nov 28 |
| 2009 | Mar 26 | Nov 7 | Mar 26 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Oct 30 | Mar 11 | Nov 11 |
| 2007 | Apr 23 | Nov 7 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Oct 24 | Mar 20 | Nov 4 |
| 2005 | Mar 23 | Oct 30 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Nov 15 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Oct 24 | Mar 12 | Nov 10 |
| 2002 | Apr 8 | Nov 1 | Apr 8 | Nov 19 |
| 2001 | Apr 20 | Oct 9 | Mar 31 | Nov 12 |
| 2000 | Apr 2 | Oct 29 | Apr 2 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 31 | Nov 4 | Mar 23 | Nov 18 |
| 1998 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 25 | no data |
| 1997 | Apr 12 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1996 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 | Apr 8 | Nov 3 |
| 1995 | Apr 15 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
"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.