Roanoke 8 N, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00447278, 1998 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,157 ft, 37.362, -79.959. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 30
Earliest	Mar 12 (2012)	Oct 3 (2003)
Latest	May 10 (2020)	Nov 18 (2020)
Trend	4.8 days later per decade	4.6 days later per decade
Years with data	27	28

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 10	Nov 11
2024	Apr 8	Nov 13	Mar 25	Nov 30
2023	Apr 10	Oct 23	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Apr 21	Oct 20	Mar 30	Nov 14
2021	Apr 25	Nov 3	Apr 4	Nov 20
2020	May 10	Nov 18	Apr 2	Nov 19
2019	Apr 4	Nov 2	Apr 2	Nov 2
2018	Apr 21	Oct 22	Apr 6	Nov 11
2017	Mar 24	Nov 11	Mar 24	Nov 11
2016	Apr 11	Nov 13	Apr 11	Nov 13
2015	Apr 6	Oct 19	Mar 30	Nov 21
2014	Apr 18	Nov 8	Mar 28	Nov 8
2013	Apr 5	Oct 26	Mar 23	Oct 26
2012	Mar 12	Nov 5	Mar 7	Nov 6
2011	Apr 7	Oct 30	Mar 29	Nov 6
2010	Mar 28	Nov 7	Mar 7	Nov 7
2009	Mar 23	Oct 19	Mar 23	Dec 6
2008	Apr 16	Oct 31	Mar 26	Nov 11
2007	Apr 12	Oct 30	Apr 12	Nov 8
2006	Mar 28	Oct 13	Mar 28	Nov 4
2005	Apr 17	Oct 27	Mar 19	Nov 18
2004	no data	Nov 10	no data	Nov 26
2003	Apr 1	Oct 3	Mar 9	Nov 10
2002	Apr 7	Nov 2	Apr 7	Nov 6
2001	Apr 20	Oct 8	Mar 29	Oct 29
2000	Mar 19	Oct 30	Mar 19	Nov 16
1999	Apr 1	Oct 25	Apr 1	Nov 18
1998	Apr 13	Oct 23	Mar 25	Oct 26

"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.