Frost history / Bluefield, WV
Bluefield, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00460925, 1999 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,870 ft, 37.256, -81.226. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 27 | Oct 19 |
| Earliest | Apr 10 (2017) | Sep 18 (2000) |
| Latest | May 20 (2007) | Nov 6 (2004) |
| Trend | 0.5 days earlier per decade | 1.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 24 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 17 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apr 24 | no data | Apr 23 | no data |
| 2023 | Apr 27 | Oct 23 | Apr 27 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 9 | Apr 21 | Oct 9 |
| 2021 | Apr 27 | Oct 27 | Apr 24 | Nov 5 |
| 2020 | May 13 | Oct 3 | May 11 | Oct 18 |
| 2019 | Apr 17 | Oct 18 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | May 2 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 2017 | Apr 10 | Oct 17 | Apr 10 | Oct 30 |
| 2016 | May 17 | Oct 23 | Apr 14 | Nov 6 |
| 2015 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | May 18 | Oct 5 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | May 15 | Oct 24 | Apr 22 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 25 | Oct 11 | Apr 14 | Oct 31 |
| 2011 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 | Apr 7 | Oct 24 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 16 | Apr 29 | Oct 30 |
| 2009 | Apr 18 | Oct 19 | Apr 13 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 19 | May 1 | Oct 19 |
| 2007 | May 20 | Oct 29 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | Apr 12 | Sep 22 | Mar 28 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 25 | May 4 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 2003 | Apr 25 | Oct 1 | Apr 1 | Oct 3 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 8 |
| 2000 | Apr 29 | Sep 18 | Apr 10 | Oct 8 |
| 1999 | Apr 26 | Oct 21 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 |
"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.