Frost history / Front Royal, VA
Front Royal, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00443229, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 930 ft, 38.904, -78.182. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 13 | Oct 28 |
| Earliest | Mar 26 (1999) | Oct 2 (2003) |
| Latest | May 22 (2002) | Nov 19 (2020) |
| Trend | 1.6 days later per decade | 6.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.
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 10 | Nov 7 | Apr 10 | Nov 12 |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | no data | Mar 25 | no data |
| 2023 | May 3 | Nov 2 | May 2 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | May 10 | Oct 22 | Apr 20 | Nov 16 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | no data | Apr 24 | no data |
| 2020 | May 10 | Nov 19 | Mar 9 | Dec 8 |
| 2019 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 2 | Oct 19 | Mar 30 | Oct 20 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 8 | Apr 18 | Nov 9 |
| 2013 | Apr 7 | Oct 26 | Apr 4 | Nov 5 |
| 2012 | Mar 28 | Oct 14 | Mar 12 | Nov 6 |
| 2011 | Apr 1 | Oct 29 | Mar 30 | Oct 31 |
| 2010 | Mar 28 | Nov 2 | Mar 28 | Nov 29 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 19 | Mar 25 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | Apr 15 | Oct 19 | Mar 25 | Nov 10 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Oct 28 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Oct 14 | Mar 22 | Nov 3 |
| 2005 | Apr 16 | Oct 28 | Mar 22 | Oct 28 |
| 2004 | Apr 16 | Nov 5 | Apr 6 | Nov 13 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Oct 2 | Mar 31 | Nov 8 |
| 2002 | May 22 | Oct 31 | Apr 23 | Nov 27 |
| 2001 | Apr 26 | Oct 7 | Mar 28 | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | Apr 13 | Oct 29 | Apr 13 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 26 | Oct 21 | Mar 26 | Oct 21 |
| 1998 | Apr 12 | Nov 4 | Mar 25 | Nov 4 |
| 1997 | Apr 20 | Oct 22 | Apr 10 | Oct 22 |
| 1996 | May 14 | Oct 4 | Apr 8 | 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.