Last Frost Day

Frost history / Harrisville, WV

Harrisville, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00463940, 2006 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 823 ft, 39.219, -81.049. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 1Oct 19
EarliestApr 11 (2007)Oct 11 (2012)
LatestMay 19 (2009)Oct 29 (2007)
Trend2.8 days later per decade2.7 days later per decade
Years with data1314

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3020102007: Apr 112008: Apr 182009: May 192010: May 112011: May 52012: Apr 242013: May 142014: Apr 182015: Apr 272016: May 172017: May 92018: May 12019: Apr 16

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120102006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 192009: Oct 182010: Oct 162011: Oct 232012: Oct 112013: Oct 212014: Oct 272015: Oct 182016: Oct 252017: Oct 272018: Oct 182019: Oct 20

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2019Apr 16Oct 20Apr 3Nov 2
2018May 1Oct 18Apr 21Oct 22
2017May 9Oct 27Apr 8Nov 11
2016May 17Oct 25Apr 13Nov 12
2015Apr 27Oct 18Apr 24Oct 18
2014Apr 18Oct 27Apr 17Nov 3
2013May 14Oct 21Apr 21Oct 25
2012Apr 24Oct 11Apr 13Oct 14
2011May 5Oct 23Apr 6Nov 5
2010May 11Oct 16Apr 10Oct 30
2009May 19Oct 18Apr 13Oct 19
2008Apr 18Oct 19Apr 16Oct 19
2007Apr 11Oct 29Apr 11Oct 29
2006no dataOct 13no dataOct 13

"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.