Frost history / Martinsburg 2, WV
Martinsburg 2, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00465706, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 460 ft, 39.466, -77.967. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 18 | Oct 24 |
| Earliest | Apr 2 (2011) | Oct 3 (2003) |
| Latest | May 14 (2013) | Nov 8 (2014) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 5.3 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 22 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.
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 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 28 | Mar 26 | Nov 13 |
| 2023 | Apr 26 | Nov 2 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | May 1 | Oct 20 | Mar 30 | Nov 15 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | Nov 3 | Apr 4 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | Apr 20 | Oct 17 | Apr 17 | Nov 19 |
| 2019 | Apr 4 | Oct 19 | Apr 4 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | Apr 22 | Oct 19 | Apr 8 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Apr 10 | Oct 28 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 |
| 2015 | Apr 13 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Oct 19 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 8 | Apr 17 | Nov 8 |
| 2013 | May 14 | Oct 25 | Apr 5 | Nov 4 |
| 2012 | Apr 26 | Oct 13 | Mar 28 | Nov 6 |
| 2011 | Apr 2 | Oct 28 | Mar 30 | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | May 11 | Oct 23 | Mar 28 | Nov 2 |
| 2009 | Apr 17 | Oct 19 | Mar 31 | Nov 4 |
| 2008 | Apr 17 | Oct 20 | Mar 31 | Oct 20 |
| 2007 | Apr 12 | Oct 29 | Apr 12 | Nov 5 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 28 | Apr 16 | Nov 12 |
| 2004 | Apr 17 | no data | Apr 6 | no data |
| 2003 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 25 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.