Madison 3NNW, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00465563, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 689 ft, 38.102, -81.846. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 24	Oct 21
Earliest	Apr 6 (2011)	Sep 23 (1976)
Latest	May 22 (2002)	Nov 12 (2016)
Trend	0.8 days earlier per decade	1.1 days later per decade
Years with data	71	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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	Oct 18	Mar 25	Nov 30
2023	Apr 26	Nov 1	Apr 11	Nov 2
2022	Apr 20	Oct 20	Apr 2	Oct 20
2021	no data	Nov 4	no data	Nov 6
2020	May 10	Nov 2	Apr 11	Nov 3
2019	Apr 16	Nov 2	Apr 2	Nov 9
2018	May 1	Oct 22	Apr 9	Nov 11
2017	Apr 9	Oct 30	Mar 24	Nov 11
2016	Apr 14	Nov 12	Apr 11	Nov 13
2015	Apr 24	Oct 18	Mar 30	Nov 14
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Apr 17	Nov 3
2013	Apr 6	Oct 26	Apr 4	Oct 26
2012	Apr 24	Nov 3	Apr 12	Nov 6
2011	Apr 6	Oct 30	Mar 31	Nov 6
2010	Apr 28	Oct 22	Mar 28	Nov 7
2009	Apr 13	Nov 4	Mar 23	Nov 6
2008	Apr 17	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 22
2007	Apr 11	Oct 29	Apr 11	Nov 8
2006	Apr 11	Oct 13	Mar 23	Oct 15
2005	May 4	Oct 30	Mar 22	Nov 11
2004	Apr 28	Oct 17	Apr 7	Nov 9
2003	Apr 25	Oct 3	Mar 31	Nov 14
2002	May 22	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 26	Oct 8	Apr 19	Oct 28
2000	Apr 13	Oct 9	Apr 1	Oct 30
1999	Apr 15	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 4
1998	Apr 13	Oct 23	Mar 24	Nov 5
1997	Apr 17	Oct 22	Apr 11	Oct 23
1996	Apr 18	Nov 3	Apr 8	Nov 3
1995	Apr 15	Oct 17	Apr 7	Nov 4
1994	May 19	Oct 11	Apr 24	Oct 11
1993	Apr 29	Oct 1	Apr 28	Oct 1
1992	Apr 29	Oct 17	Apr 7	Oct 18
1991	no data	Oct 7	no data	Oct 8
1990	Apr 20	Oct 19	Apr 19	Oct 27
1989	May 8	Oct 10	Apr 14	Nov 4
1988	May 4	Oct 5	Apr 29	Oct 7
1987	Apr 11	Oct 9	Apr 4	Oct 22
1986	May 5	Nov 10	Apr 24	Nov 14
1985	Apr 11	Nov 9	Apr 11	Dec 3
1984	Apr 20	Nov 3	Apr 2	Nov 7
1983	May 11	Oct 27	Apr 21	Nov 13
1982	Apr 29	Oct 18	Apr 23	Nov 6
1981	Apr 26	Oct 14	Apr 21	Oct 20
1980	May 10	Oct 13	May 9	Oct 14
1979	May 1	Oct 14	Apr 7	Oct 27
1978	May 3	Oct 25	Mar 19	Oct 30
1977	May 11	Oct 17	Apr 9	Nov 12
1976	Apr 30	Sep 23	Apr 28	Oct 18
1975	no data	Oct 31	no data	Nov 15
1974	May 8	Oct 3	Apr 11	Oct 4
1973	May 6	Oct 17	Apr 15	Nov 6
1972	Apr 27	Oct 20	Apr 26	Oct 20
1971	May 5	Nov 4	Apr 16	Nov 5
1970	Apr 12	Oct 17	Apr 8	Nov 17
1969	Apr 25	Oct 18	Apr 2	Oct 18
1968	May 8	Oct 27	Mar 26	Oct 27
1967	Apr 29	Oct 13	Apr 12	Oct 22
1966	May 12	Oct 27	May 11	Oct 31
1965	Apr 17	Oct 6	Apr 4	Oct 25
1964	Apr 16	Oct 8	Apr 10	Oct 11
1963	May 3	Oct 30	Apr 16	Oct 30
1962	Apr 22	Oct 24	Apr 21	Oct 26
1961	May 5	Oct 27	Apr 20	Oct 27
1960	Apr 19	Oct 25	Apr 12	Oct 25
1959	Apr 24	Oct 19	Mar 29	Nov 3
1958	Apr 14	Oct 31	Mar 24	Oct 31
1957	Apr 16	Oct 21	Apr 16	Oct 29
1956	Apr 26	Nov 10	Apr 21	Nov 13
1955	Apr 10	Oct 25	Apr 9	Oct 25
1954	May 5	Oct 8	Apr 3	Nov 1
1953	Apr 22	Oct 8	Apr 17	Nov 5
1952	Apr 17	Oct 4	Apr 8	Oct 19
1951	Apr 20	Oct 29	Apr 18	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.