Frost history / Hacker Valley, WV
Hacker Valley, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00463798, 2000 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,582 ft, 38.619, -80.382. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 10 | Oct 17 |
| Earliest | Apr 18 (2008) | Oct 1 (2017) |
| Latest | May 27 (2013) | Nov 2 (2002) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 22 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 24 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.
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 | May 11 | no data | Apr 18 | no data |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 10 | Apr 23 | Oct 18 |
| 2023 | May 5 | no data | Apr 26 | no data |
| 2021 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 2019 | May 15 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 2017 | May 10 | Oct 1 | May 10 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | May 17 | Oct 26 | Apr 14 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | Apr 30 | Oct 17 | Apr 25 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | May 20 | Oct 5 | Apr 25 | Oct 31 |
| 2013 | May 27 | Oct 21 | May 26 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | May 12 | Oct 11 | Apr 25 | Oct 12 |
| 2011 | May 6 | Oct 23 | Mar 30 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 17 | May 11 | Oct 23 |
| 2009 | May 20 | Oct 19 | Apr 13 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | Apr 18 | Oct 19 | Apr 17 | Oct 19 |
| 2007 | May 8 | Oct 29 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | May 24 | Oct 13 | Apr 12 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 6 | Oct 25 | Apr 17 | Oct 30 |
| 2004 | May 5 | Oct 6 | Apr 29 | Nov 9 |
| 2003 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 |
| 2002 | May 23 | Nov 2 | May 23 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | May 15 | Oct 7 | Apr 20 | Oct 7 |
| 2000 | Apr 28 | Oct 8 | Apr 27 | Oct 8 |
"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.