Frost history / Grantsville 1ESE, WV
Grantsville 1ESE, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00463648, 1952 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 706 ft, 38.910, -81.084. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 28 | Oct 15 |
| Earliest | Apr 10 (1955) | Sep 21 (1956) |
| Latest | May 14 (2020) | Nov 3 (2021) |
| Trend | 0.5 days earlier per decade | 2.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 37 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | May 14 | no data | Apr 23 | no data |
| 2019 | no data | Oct 20 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2016 | Apr 15 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 2015 | Apr 25 | Oct 19 | Apr 25 | Oct 19 |
| 2014 | Apr 25 | Nov 3 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | no data | Oct 25 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 2009 | Apr 13 | no data | Apr 12 | no data |
| 2008 | Apr 18 | Oct 19 | Apr 17 | Oct 21 |
| 2007 | Apr 17 | Oct 29 | Apr 12 | Nov 2 |
| 2006 | Apr 13 | Oct 13 | Apr 10 | Oct 15 |
| 2005 | May 5 | Oct 29 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2004 | May 4 | Oct 18 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2003 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 | Apr 1 | Nov 9 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 1980 | May 10 | Oct 6 | Apr 17 | Oct 27 |
| 1979 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 15 |
| 1978 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1977 | May 11 | Oct 15 | Apr 10 | Oct 17 |
| 1976 | May 9 | Oct 18 | Apr 14 | Oct 18 |
| 1975 | Apr 27 | Oct 3 | Apr 14 | Oct 31 |
| 1974 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 3 |
| 1972 | May 13 | no data | Apr 26 | no data |
| 1970 | May 7 | Oct 6 | May 7 | Oct 17 |
| 1969 | May 1 | Oct 18 | Apr 7 | Oct 18 |
| 1968 | May 7 | Oct 5 | May 7 | Oct 27 |
| 1967 | Apr 29 | Sep 25 | Apr 28 | Oct 14 |
| 1966 | May 12 | Oct 7 | May 12 | Oct 28 |
| 1964 | no data | Oct 6 | no data | Oct 11 |
| 1963 | May 1 | Oct 12 | May 1 | Oct 30 |
| 1962 | Apr 25 | Oct 24 | Apr 21 | Oct 25 |
| 1961 | May 5 | Oct 27 | Apr 20 | Nov 8 |
| 1960 | May 2 | Oct 21 | Apr 11 | Oct 25 |
| 1959 | Apr 24 | Oct 19 | Apr 7 | Oct 29 |
| 1958 | Apr 26 | Oct 2 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 |
| 1957 | no data | Oct 12 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 1956 | May 8 | Sep 21 | Apr 21 | Nov 11 |
| 1955 | Apr 10 | Oct 25 | Apr 9 | Oct 25 |
| 1954 | Apr 13 | Oct 8 | Apr 9 | Oct 20 |
| 1953 | Apr 22 | Oct 8 | Apr 22 | Oct 31 |
| 1952 | Apr 17 | Oct 4 | Apr 9 | Oct 21 |
"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.