Frost history / N, VA
N, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00446161, 2002 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4 ft, 37.434, -76.441. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 28 | Nov 12 |
| Earliest | Mar 1 (2024) | Oct 31 (2008) |
| Latest | Apr 11 (2018) | Nov 30 (2024) |
| Trend | 4.5 days earlier per decade | 2.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 20 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 29.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 9 | Nov 18 | Mar 3 | Nov 29 |
| 2024 | Mar 1 | Nov 30 | Feb 22 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 3 | Mar 21 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 30 | Nov 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 5 | Nov 20 | Mar 8 | Nov 30 |
| 2018 | Apr 11 | Nov 11 | Mar 28 | Nov 23 |
| 2017 | Mar 25 | Nov 11 | Mar 23 | Nov 24 |
| 2016 | Apr 10 | Nov 13 | Apr 6 | Nov 22 |
| 2015 | Apr 5 | Nov 15 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Nov 15 |
| 2012 | Mar 12 | Nov 6 | Mar 11 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Nov 12 | Mar 29 | Dec 12 |
| 2010 | Mar 10 | Nov 29 | Mar 9 | Nov 29 |
| 2009 | Mar 26 | Nov 7 | Mar 26 | Dec 12 |
| 2008 | Mar 30 | Oct 31 | Mar 1 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Nov 17 | Mar 20 | Dec 1 |
| 2006 | Mar 24 | Nov 4 | Mar 9 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 | Mar 15 | Nov 19 |
| 2004 | Mar 24 | Nov 10 | Mar 24 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
| 2002 | Apr 8 | Nov 19 | Mar 24 | Nov 29 |
"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.