Frost history / Monticello, VA
Monticello, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00445700, 1983 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 758 ft, 38.011, -78.449. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 5 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Mar 10 (1995) | Oct 2 (2003) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (1989) | Dec 6 (2009) |
| Trend | 1.7 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 28 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 8 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 |
| 2013 | Apr 5 | Oct 26 | Mar 23 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 | Mar 12 | Nov 6 |
| 2011 | Mar 30 | Oct 29 | Mar 28 | Nov 12 |
| 2010 | Mar 28 | Nov 2 | Mar 28 | Nov 28 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Dec 6 | Mar 25 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 |
| 2006 | Apr 9 | Nov 2 | Mar 4 | Nov 3 |
| 2005 | Mar 22 | Nov 17 | Mar 14 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | Apr 5 | Nov 9 | Mar 23 | Nov 26 |
| 2003 | Apr 17 | Oct 2 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 |
| 2002 | Apr 6 | Nov 7 | Mar 22 | Nov 23 |
| 2001 | Apr 1 | Oct 28 | Apr 1 | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | Apr 14 | Oct 30 | Apr 14 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 25 | Oct 25 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Mar 24 | Nov 4 | Mar 14 | Nov 4 |
| 1997 | Apr 9 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 1995 | Mar 10 | Nov 4 | Mar 10 | Nov 8 |
| 1994 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 1993 | Mar 20 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 1991 | Apr 2 | Oct 8 | Mar 30 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 12 | Oct 26 | Mar 8 | Oct 26 |
| 1989 | Apr 24 | Nov 4 | Apr 11 | Nov 18 |
| 1988 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 1987 | Apr 7 | Oct 23 | Apr 1 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 23 | no data |
| 1985 | Apr 18 | Dec 3 | Apr 10 | Dec 3 |
| 1984 | Mar 29 | Nov 8 | Mar 14 | Nov 20 |
| 1983 | Apr 19 | Nov 13 | Mar 27 | Dec 2 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.