Lebanon, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00444777, 1990 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,912 ft, 36.903, -82.038. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 25	Oct 17
Earliest	Apr 7 (2011)	Oct 1 (1993)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Nov 2 (2002)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	2.1 days later per decade
Years with data	35	35

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 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 17	Apr 14	Oct 25
2024	Apr 23	Oct 11	Apr 8	Oct 18
2023	May 5	Nov 1	Apr 9	Nov 1
2022	Apr 28	no data	Apr 10	no data
2021	Apr 27	Oct 27	Apr 23	Nov 5
2020	May 12	Oct 17	May 9	Nov 3
2019	Apr 17	Oct 18	Apr 2	Nov 2
2018	May 2	Oct 19	Apr 22	Oct 22
2017	Apr 10	Oct 18	Apr 8	Nov 11
2016	Apr 14	Oct 23	Apr 14	Nov 11
2015	Apr 25	Oct 17	Apr 25	Oct 18
2014	Apr 26	Oct 5	Apr 17	Nov 3
2013	May 14	Oct 20	Apr 4	Oct 26
2012	Apr 25	Oct 11	Apr 13	Nov 3
2011	Apr 7	Oct 22	Mar 30	Oct 30
2010	May 11	Oct 16	Mar 28	Oct 30
2009	Apr 13	Oct 19	Apr 8	Oct 19
2008	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 22
2007	Apr 14	Oct 29	Apr 11	Oct 29
2006	Apr 11	Oct 13	Mar 28	Oct 13
2005	May 4	Oct 27	Mar 21	Oct 27
2004	May 5	Oct 17	Apr 7	Nov 9
2003	Apr 24	Oct 3	Apr 1	Oct 3
2002	May 23	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 27	Oct 7	Apr 20	Oct 8
2000	Apr 27	Oct 8	Mar 18	Oct 8
1999	Apr 15	Oct 21	Mar 29	Oct 25
1998	Apr 13	Oct 23	Apr 7	Oct 23
1997	May 16	Oct 16	Apr 16	Oct 23
1996	May 15	Oct 11	Apr 18	Oct 13
1995	Apr 27	Oct 17	Apr 6	Oct 17
1994	Apr 24	Oct 11	Apr 9	Oct 27
1993	Apr 24	Oct 1	Mar 20	Oct 23
1992	Apr 30	Oct 19	Apr 7	Oct 19
1991	Apr 13	Oct 7	Apr 2	Oct 8
1990	Apr 18	Oct 20	Apr 18	Oct 27

"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.