Frost history / Wallaceton-Lake Drummond, VA
Wallaceton-Lake Drummond, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00448837, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 36.595, -76.439. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 23 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Mar 25 (2024) | Oct 14 (2006) |
| Latest | May 29 (2008) | Nov 22 (2024) |
| Trend | 22.0 days earlier per decade | 11.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 18 | 19 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.
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 27 | Nov 14 | Mar 9 | Nov 29 |
| 2024 | Mar 25 | Nov 22 | Feb 22 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Apr 11 | Nov 2 | Mar 21 | Nov 3 |
| 2022 | Mar 29 | Oct 20 | Mar 13 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 3 | Nov 9 | Feb 22 | Nov 15 |
| 2020 | Apr 16 | Nov 19 | Mar 1 | Dec 3 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Nov 9 | Mar 8 | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 22 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 2016 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 18 | no data |
| 2015 | Apr 27 | Oct 18 | Apr 3 | Oct 20 |
| 2014 | Apr 24 | Oct 20 | Apr 17 | Oct 27 |
| 2013 | Apr 26 | Oct 21 | Apr 22 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 2011 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 2010 | Apr 29 | Nov 2 | Mar 28 | Nov 28 |
| 2009 | Apr 17 | Oct 21 | Mar 25 | Dec 7 |
| 2008 | May 29 | Oct 23 | May 11 | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | May 14 | Oct 21 | Apr 21 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | May 1 | Oct 14 | Apr 12 | Oct 14 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 27 | Mar 25 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Nov 6 |
"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.