Frost history / Burton, WV
Burton, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00461290, 2006 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,240 ft, 39.647, -80.407. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 11 | Oct 17 |
| Earliest | Apr 5 (2019) | Oct 2 (2017) |
| Latest | May 25 (2013) | Oct 22 (2011) |
| Trend | 13.2 days earlier per decade | 0.6 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 13 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 24 and the median first fall date is Oct 24.
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 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 24 |
| 2019 | Apr 5 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 2018 | May 2 | Oct 18 | May 1 | Oct 19 |
| 2017 | May 9 | Oct 2 | May 9 | Nov 1 |
| 2016 | May 17 | Oct 11 | Apr 15 | Oct 26 |
| 2014 | May 20 | Oct 19 | Apr 24 | Oct 28 |
| 2013 | May 25 | Oct 20 | May 14 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | May 11 | Oct 10 | Apr 24 | Oct 12 |
| 2011 | May 5 | Oct 22 | Apr 6 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | May 10 | Oct 15 | May 10 | Oct 21 |
| 2009 | May 19 | Oct 18 | May 19 | Oct 18 |
| 2008 | Apr 17 | Oct 17 | Apr 16 | Oct 18 |
| 2007 | May 19 | Oct 13 | Apr 13 | Oct 28 |
| 2006 | May 24 | Oct 12 | Apr 27 | Oct 14 |
"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.