Elkhorn, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00462709, 1991 to 2007, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,948 ft, 37.387, -81.405. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 28	Oct 16
Earliest	Apr 11 (2006)	Oct 1 (1993)
Latest	May 16 (1997)	Oct 28 (2007)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	8.5 days later per decade
Years with data	15	13

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 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
2007	May 6	Oct 28	Apr 10	Oct 28
2006	Apr 11	Oct 12	Apr 10	Oct 12
2005	May 5	Oct 27	May 4	Oct 27
2003	Apr 24	no data	Apr 1	no data
2001	May 14	no data	Apr 20	no data
2000	Apr 28	Oct 8	Mar 31	Oct 8
1999	Apr 25	Oct 21	Mar 30	Oct 25
1998	Apr 29	Oct 23	Apr 7	Oct 23
1997	May 16	Oct 16	Apr 15	Oct 23
1996	May 14	Oct 12	Apr 11	Nov 3
1995	Apr 26	Oct 16	Apr 6	Nov 4
1994	Apr 23	Oct 11	Apr 9	Oct 27
1993	Apr 24	Oct 1	Mar 20	Nov 2
1992	Apr 30	Oct 18	Apr 7	Oct 20
1991	Apr 24	Oct 8	Apr 2	Nov 3

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.