Lexington, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00444876, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,097 ft, 37.777, -79.439. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 24	Oct 17
Earliest	Apr 1 (2000)	Sep 21 (1956)
Latest	May 28 (1961)	Nov 8 (1984)
Trend	0.5 days earlier per decade	2.1 days later per decade
Years with data	68	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.

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
2024	Apr 23	no data	Apr 7	no data
2023	Apr 26	Oct 23	Apr 9	Nov 2
2022	Apr 21	Oct 9	Apr 21	Oct 20
2021	Apr 24	Nov 3	Apr 4	Nov 4
2020	May 11	Oct 31	Apr 20	Nov 19
2019	Apr 4	Oct 19	Apr 4	Nov 2
2018	Apr 22	Oct 22	Apr 9	Oct 22
2017	Apr 10	Oct 27	Mar 24	Nov 11
2016	Apr 15	Nov 5	Apr 11	Nov 13
2015	Apr 6	Oct 18	Apr 6	Oct 18
2014	Apr 19	Oct 31	Apr 18	Nov 3
2013	no data	Oct 21	no data	Oct 25
2011	Apr 8	Oct 23	Mar 30	Oct 30
2010	May 10	Oct 23	Mar 28	Nov 7
2009	Apr 22	Oct 19	Apr 13	Oct 19
2008	May 1	Oct 19	Apr 17	Oct 20
2007	Apr 12	Oct 29	Apr 10	Oct 29
2006	Apr 30	Oct 13	Mar 28	Oct 15
2005	May 4	Oct 27	Apr 17	Oct 27
2004	no data	Nov 6	no data	Nov 9
2003	no data	Oct 3	no data	Nov 10
2002	no data	Nov 1	no data	Nov 2
2001	Apr 27	Oct 7	Apr 20	Oct 8
2000	Apr 1	Oct 9	Apr 1	Oct 30
1998	Apr 12	Oct 23	Mar 25	Oct 23
1997	May 11	Oct 20	Apr 20	Oct 22
1996	May 14	Oct 12	Apr 8	Nov 3
1995	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 15	Oct 30
1994	May 4	Oct 11	May 4	Oct 27
1993	Apr 29	Oct 1	Apr 7	Oct 24
1992	Apr 29	Oct 18	Apr 6	Oct 20
1991	Apr 23	Oct 8	Apr 3	Oct 30
1990	Apr 19	Oct 27	Apr 19	Oct 27
1989	Apr 24	Oct 9	Apr 15	Nov 4
1988	Apr 25	Oct 6	Apr 20	Oct 13
1987	Apr 29	Oct 9	Apr 1	Oct 14
1986	May 4	Oct 16	Apr 24	Oct 19
1985	Apr 10	Oct 7	Apr 10	Dec 2
1984	Apr 19	Nov 8	Apr 11	Nov 8
1983	May 11	Sep 24	Apr 21	Nov 7
1982	Apr 24	Oct 17	Apr 12	Nov 6
1981	May 3	Oct 4	Apr 7	Oct 14
1980	Apr 17	Oct 14	Apr 17	Oct 27
1979	Apr 29	Oct 15	Mar 28	Oct 27
1978	May 3	Oct 9	Mar 19	Oct 9
1977	May 11	Oct 18	Apr 10	Nov 13
1976	May 9	Oct 15	Apr 29	Oct 19
1975	Apr 14	Oct 31	Apr 14	Oct 31
1974	May 7	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 4
1973	May 18	Oct 18	Apr 15	Nov 7
1972	Apr 27	Oct 11	Apr 26	Oct 20
1971	May 4	Nov 4	Apr 16	Nov 5
1970	May 7	Oct 5	Apr 8	Oct 18
1969	May 13	Oct 18	Apr 1	Oct 18
1968	May 7	Oct 5	Apr 2	Oct 5
1967	Apr 29	Oct 20	Apr 29	Oct 20
1966	May 11	Oct 7	May 11	Oct 21
1965	Apr 17	Oct 5	Apr 3	Oct 6
1964	Apr 11	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 7
1963	May 3	Sep 24	May 2	Oct 31
1962	Apr 22	Oct 19	Apr 21	Oct 25
1961	May 28	Oct 17	Apr 30	Oct 28
1960	Apr 19	Oct 21	Apr 11	Oct 21
1959	Apr 24	Oct 19	Apr 5	Nov 3
1958	Apr 14	Oct 7	Apr 2	Oct 30
1957	Apr 16	Oct 13	Apr 16	Oct 29
1956	Apr 25	Sep 21	Apr 25	Nov 11
1955	Apr 9	Oct 16	Apr 1	Oct 26
1954	Apr 5	Oct 8	Apr 2	Oct 8
1953	Apr 22	Oct 8	Mar 10	Nov 7
1952	Apr 9	Oct 21	Mar 29	Oct 21
1951	Apr 18	Oct 12	Apr 18	Nov 4

"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.