Frost history / Frost 3NE, WV
Frost 3NE, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00463251, 2002 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,905 ft, 38.287, -79.818. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 13 | Oct 1 |
| Earliest | Apr 25 (2003) | Sep 10 (2017) |
| Latest | May 26 (2013) | Oct 26 (2021) |
| Trend | 2.4 days later per decade | 2.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 18 | 21 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 28 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | May 11 | Sep 28 | Apr 29 | Oct 9 |
| 2021 | May 14 | Oct 26 | Apr 24 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 14 | Sep 20 | May 13 | Oct 17 |
| 2019 | May 16 | Oct 13 | Apr 17 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | May 2 | Oct 18 | May 1 | Oct 19 |
| 2017 | May 10 | Sep 10 | May 10 | Oct 26 |
| 2016 | May 17 | Oct 25 | Apr 15 | Nov 5 |
| 2015 | Apr 30 | Oct 17 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 |
| 2014 | May 19 | Sep 23 | Apr 24 | Oct 30 |
| 2013 | May 26 | Oct 20 | May 26 | Oct 23 |
| 2012 | May 12 | Sep 23 | Apr 26 | Oct 11 |
| 2011 | May 7 | Sep 16 | Apr 7 | Oct 23 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 15 | May 11 | Oct 23 |
| 2009 | May 21 | Oct 1 | May 20 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | May 14 | Oct 3 | Apr 17 | Oct 19 |
| 2007 | May 20 | Sep 17 | May 6 | Oct 14 |
| 2006 | no data | Sep 30 | no data | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 5 | Oct 1 | May 5 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Nov 6 |
| 2003 | Apr 25 | Sep 30 | Apr 25 | Oct 2 |
| 2002 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Oct 18 |
"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.