Frost history / Alderson, WV
Alderson, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00460102, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,552 ft, 37.727, -80.658. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 22 | Oct 18 |
| Earliest | Apr 7 (2011) | Sep 14 (1953) |
| Latest | May 15 (2013) | Nov 3 (2021) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 3.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 26 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.
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 18 | Oct 17 | Apr 14 | Oct 24 |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 18 | Apr 7 | Nov 13 |
| 2023 | Apr 26 | Oct 24 | Apr 25 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 22 | Oct 9 | Apr 22 | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | Nov 3 | Apr 24 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | May 13 | Oct 17 | May 10 | Nov 3 |
| 2019 | Apr 17 | Oct 18 | Apr 3 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | May 2 | Oct 19 | Apr 21 | Oct 22 |
| 2017 | Apr 9 | Oct 27 | Apr 9 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 14 | Oct 26 | Apr 13 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Oct 5 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | May 15 | Oct 21 | Apr 7 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 26 | Oct 11 | Apr 13 | Nov 5 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | Oct 23 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 22 | Mar 28 | Oct 30 |
| 2009 | Apr 13 | Oct 19 | Apr 13 | Nov 4 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 19 | Apr 17 | Oct 21 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | Apr 11 | Oct 13 | Mar 28 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 1958 | Apr 18 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 1957 | May 8 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 1956 | no data | Sep 21 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 1955 | Apr 10 | Oct 11 | Apr 9 | Oct 25 |
| 1954 | May 4 | Oct 8 | Apr 13 | Oct 8 |
| 1953 | Apr 22 | Sep 14 | Apr 17 | Oct 8 |
| 1952 | Apr 18 | Oct 4 | Apr 17 | Oct 17 |
| 1951 | no data | Sep 29 | no data | Oct 10 |
"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.