Galax Wtp, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00443272, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,341 ft, 36.654, -80.917. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 24	Oct 19
Earliest	Apr 4 (2019)	Oct 6 (2014)
Latest	May 15 (2013)	Nov 3 (2021)
Trend	2.6 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	15	16

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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 18	Oct 18	Apr 14	Oct 25
2024	Apr 24	Oct 17	Apr 8	Nov 22
2023	Apr 27	Oct 24	Apr 11	Nov 1
2022	Apr 21	Oct 18	Apr 21	Oct 20
2021	May 14	Nov 3	Apr 24	Nov 5
2020	May 13	Oct 18	Mar 10	Nov 17
2019	Apr 4	Oct 19	Apr 2	Nov 2
2018	Apr 22	Oct 19	Apr 9	Nov 4
2017	Apr 10	Oct 18	Mar 24	Nov 11
2016	Apr 18	Oct 26	Apr 11	Nov 6
2015	Apr 29	Oct 19	Apr 6	Nov 15
2014	Apr 24	Oct 6	Apr 18	Oct 31
2013	May 15	Oct 21	Apr 4	Oct 26
2012	Apr 14	Nov 3	Apr 13	Nov 3
2011	May 5	Oct 22	Apr 7	Oct 30
2010	no data	Oct 15	no data	Oct 30

"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.