Hot Springs, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00444128, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,244 ft, 37.999, -79.832. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 30	Oct 15
Earliest	Apr 7 (2011)	Sep 21 (1956)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Nov 6 (2016)
Trend	0.7 days earlier per decade	2.6 days later per decade
Years with data	72	68

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.

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
2025	Apr 18	Oct 24	Apr 14	Oct 26
2024	Apr 23	Oct 18	Apr 8	Nov 18
2023	Apr 26	Oct 23	Apr 10	Nov 1
2022	Apr 21	Oct 9	Apr 21	Oct 20
2021	Apr 24	Nov 3	Apr 24	Nov 3
2020	May 14	Oct 17	May 11	Oct 31
2019	Apr 17	Oct 19	Apr 2	Nov 2
2018	Apr 30	Oct 19	Apr 18	Oct 22
2017	May 9	Oct 26	Mar 24	Nov 11
2016	Apr 15	Nov 6	Apr 11	Nov 12
2015	Apr 29	Oct 18	Apr 6	Oct 18
2014	Apr 19	Oct 21	Apr 18	Nov 3
2013	May 15	Oct 25	Apr 7	Oct 25
2012	Apr 26	Oct 30	Apr 8	Nov 5
2011	Apr 7	Oct 23	Mar 30	Oct 30
2010	May 11	Oct 30	Mar 28	Nov 6
2009	May 18	Oct 19	Apr 12	Oct 19
2008	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 15	Oct 20
2007	Apr 17	Oct 27	Apr 11	Oct 27
2006	Apr 11	Oct 13	Apr 10	Oct 13
2005	May 4	Oct 27	May 4	Oct 29
2004	Apr 29	Nov 6	Apr 7	Nov 9
2003	Apr 25	Oct 2	Apr 1	Oct 3
2002	May 23	Oct 17	May 22	Nov 2
2001	Apr 26	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 8
2000	Apr 27	Oct 8	Apr 9	Oct 8
1999	Apr 15	Oct 21	Mar 23	Nov 3
1998	Apr 28	Oct 22	Mar 25	Nov 4
1997	May 23	Oct 22	May 23	Oct 22
1996	May 14	Oct 5	Apr 10	Oct 12
1995	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 16	Nov 4
1991	Apr 24	no data	Apr 4	no data
1990	Apr 20	no data	Apr 19	no data
1989	May 9	Sep 24	Apr 15	Oct 10
1988	May 2	Oct 6	Apr 30	Oct 6
1987	Apr 11	no data	Apr 5	no data
1986	May 5	Oct 7	Apr 24	Nov 14
1985	May 5	Oct 7	Apr 11	Dec 3
1984	May 17	Oct 3	Apr 8	Nov 7
1983	May 10	Sep 23	Apr 21	Nov 12
1982	Apr 23	Oct 17	Apr 23	Oct 23
1981	May 4	Oct 4	Apr 22	Oct 20
1980	May 11	no data	Apr 18	no data
1979	Apr 19	Oct 10	Apr 19	Oct 15
1978	May 4	Oct 9	May 4	Oct 9
1977	May 11	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 18
1976	May 10	Oct 18	Apr 29	Oct 18
1975	Apr 15	Oct 3	Apr 14	Oct 31
1974	May 8	Sep 24	Apr 8	Oct 3
1973	May 18	Nov 4	Apr 15	Nov 6
1972	Apr 27	Oct 10	Apr 26	Oct 20
1971	May 5	Nov 5	Apr 15	Nov 5
1970	May 8	Oct 17	Apr 9	Nov 17
1969	May 1	Oct 18	Apr 7	Oct 18
1968	May 8	Oct 5	Apr 16	Oct 5
1967	May 17	Oct 1	Apr 29	Oct 20
1966	May 11	Oct 7	May 10	Oct 21
1965	Apr 17	Oct 5	Apr 3	Oct 5
1964	Apr 16	Oct 6	Apr 16	Oct 6
1963	May 3	Sep 24	May 2	Oct 31
1962	Apr 22	Sep 21	Apr 21	Oct 25
1961	May 4	Oct 4	Apr 30	Oct 28
1960	May 2	Oct 21	May 2	Oct 21
1959	May 17	Oct 19	Apr 14	Nov 3
1958	Apr 14	Oct 7	Apr 2	Oct 7
1957	May 5	Oct 12	Apr 15	Oct 28
1956	May 17	Sep 21	Apr 21	Nov 12
1955	Apr 9	Oct 25	Apr 9	Oct 25
1954	May 11	Oct 8	May 6	Oct 8
1953	Apr 22	Oct 8	Apr 22	Oct 8
1952	Apr 17	Oct 4	Apr 9	Oct 21
1951	Apr 24	Sep 29	Apr 18	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.