Davis 3SE, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00462211, 2002 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,715 ft, 39.098, -79.432. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	May 9	Oct 14
Earliest	Apr 19 (2007)	Sep 23 (2014)
Latest	Jun 1 (2020)	Nov 2 (2021)
Trend	0.8 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 27 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.

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

"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.