Lynchburg #2, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00445117, 1998 to 2012, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 736 ft, 37.382, -79.233. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 16	Oct 24
Earliest	Mar 28 (2010)	Oct 3 (2003)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Nov 6 (2004)
Trend	10.2 days earlier per decade	11.0 days later per decade
Years with data	14	14

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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
2012	Apr 25	Nov 3	Mar 12	Nov 3
2011	Apr 7	Oct 30	Mar 30	Oct 30
2010	Mar 28	Oct 30	Mar 28	Nov 7
2009	Apr 13	Oct 19	Mar 23	Nov 4
2008	Apr 18	no data	Apr 17	no data
2007	Apr 14	Oct 29	Apr 10	Nov 7
2006	Apr 11	Oct 13	Mar 28	Oct 16
2005	May 3	Oct 27	Apr 17	Oct 28
2004	Apr 17	Nov 6	Apr 7	Nov 9
2003	Apr 1	Oct 3	Apr 1	Nov 10
2002	May 23	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 28	Oct 7	Mar 29	Oct 8
2000	Apr 2	Oct 9	Mar 19	Nov 6
1999	Apr 26	Oct 25	Mar 31	Nov 4
1998	no data	Oct 23	no data	Oct 23

"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.