Fairmont, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00462920, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,300 ft, 39.458, -80.135. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 25	Oct 17
Earliest	Mar 29 (2008)	Sep 21 (1956)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Nov 12 (2016)
Trend	0.9 days earlier per decade	2.2 days later per decade
Years with data	71	70

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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.

Chart

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 22	no data	Mar 24	no data
2023	Apr 25	Oct 23	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Apr 28	Oct 19	Apr 2	Nov 18
2021	Apr 23	Nov 3	Apr 3	Nov 4
2020	May 10	Oct 31	Mar 8	Nov 24
2019	Apr 2	Oct 19	Apr 2	Nov 2
2018	Apr 30	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 10
2017	Apr 8	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 10
2016	Apr 10	Nov 12	Apr 10	Nov 14
2015	Mar 29	Oct 18	Mar 29	Nov 23
2014	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 8
2013	Apr 21	Oct 25	Apr 5	Nov 12
2012	Apr 14	no data	Mar 12	no data
2011	Mar 30	Oct 30	Mar 30	Nov 18
2010	May 10	Oct 30	Mar 28	Nov 7
2008	Mar 29	Oct 20	Mar 26	Oct 31
2006	Apr 10	Oct 13	Apr 10	Oct 26
2005	Apr 25	Oct 25	Mar 23	Oct 27
2004	May 5	Nov 9	Apr 7	Nov 9
2003	Apr 25	Oct 3	Apr 1	Oct 24
2002	May 23	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 19	Oct 6	Apr 18	Oct 29
2000	Apr 28	Oct 8	Apr 14	Oct 31
1999	Apr 15	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 4
1998	Apr 13	Oct 23	Mar 26	Nov 5
1997	Apr 21	Oct 21	Apr 11	Oct 23
1996	May 15	Oct 13	Apr 11	Nov 2
1995	Apr 16	Oct 17	Apr 16	Nov 5
1994	Apr 9	Oct 11	Apr 9	Oct 28
1993	Apr 28	Oct 11	Apr 5	Nov 2
1992	May 1	Oct 18	Apr 6	Oct 18
1991	Apr 4	Oct 8	Apr 4	Oct 21
1990	Apr 18	Oct 20	Apr 18	Oct 27
1989	Apr 24	Oct 23	Apr 14	Nov 4
1988	Apr 20	Oct 6	Mar 28	Oct 13
1987	May 5	Oct 4	Apr 3	Oct 26
1986	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 24	Oct 20
1985	Apr 17	Oct 7	Apr 10	Dec 2
1984	May 17	Nov 3	Apr 2	Nov 3
1983	May 17	Sep 24	May 10	Oct 30
1982	Apr 28	Oct 17	Apr 28	Oct 17
1981	May 7	Sep 24	May 3	Oct 9
1980	May 10	Oct 6	May 9	Oct 14
1979	May 17	Oct 15	Apr 30	Oct 15
1978	May 3	Oct 9	Mar 30	Oct 9
1977	May 12	Oct 13	May 11	Oct 17
1976	May 9	Oct 12	Apr 14	Oct 18
1975	Apr 14	Oct 3	Apr 14	Oct 31
1974	May 7	Sep 24	Apr 10	Oct 3
1973	Apr 15	Oct 19	Apr 14	Nov 4
1972	Apr 26	Oct 10	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	May 4	Nov 4	Apr 27	Nov 5
1970	May 7	Oct 17	May 7	Nov 16
1969	May 1	Oct 15	Apr 1	Oct 23
1968	May 7	Oct 28	Apr 6	Oct 31
1967	Apr 29	Oct 13	Apr 12	Oct 22
1966	May 11	Oct 7	May 10	Oct 30
1965	Apr 14	Oct 5	Apr 4	Oct 6
1964	Apr 16	Oct 6	Apr 5	Oct 11
1963	May 2	Nov 2	Apr 10	Nov 13
1962	Apr 21	Oct 25	Apr 17	Oct 25
1961	Apr 30	Nov 8	Apr 3	Nov 8
1960	May 2	Oct 22	Apr 11	Oct 25
1959	Apr 14	Oct 29	Mar 29	Oct 29
1958	Apr 9	Oct 2	Apr 9	Nov 8
1957	May 5	Oct 11	Apr 15	Oct 28
1956	May 5	Sep 21	Apr 25	Nov 17
1955	Apr 8	Oct 25	Apr 8	Nov 6
1954	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 9	Nov 1
1953	Apr 21	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 8
1952	Apr 9	Oct 4	Mar 30	Oct 20
1951	Apr 20	Sep 29	Apr 20	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 to 2020 frost probabilities.