Ripley, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00467552, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 608 ft, 38.817, -81.712. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 27	Oct 15
Earliest	Apr 6 (2011)	Sep 14 (1964)
Latest	May 23 (1963)	Nov 11 (2017)
Trend	1.7 days earlier per decade	4.3 days later per decade
Years with data	67	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 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.

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
2025	Apr 18	Oct 25	Apr 10	Nov 11
2024	Apr 25	Oct 18	Mar 26	Nov 22
2023	Apr 26	Oct 24	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Apr 21	no data	Apr 4	no data
2021	Apr 24	Nov 4	Apr 4	Nov 4
2020	May 10	Oct 17	Mar 13	Nov 19
2019	Apr 19	Nov 2	Apr 5	Nov 2
2018	May 1	Oct 20	Apr 23	Nov 11
2017	Apr 9	Nov 11	Mar 25	Nov 11
2016	Apr 18	Nov 11	Apr 11	Nov 13
2015	no data	Oct 18	no data	Oct 18
2014	Apr 18	Nov 3	Apr 17	Nov 3
2013	Apr 22	Oct 25	Apr 4	Oct 26
2012	Apr 13	Oct 11	Apr 12	Nov 6
2011	Apr 6	Oct 30	Apr 4	Nov 6
2010	Apr 29	Oct 23	Mar 28	Nov 6
2009	Apr 13	Oct 18	Mar 23	Nov 6
2008	Apr 17	Oct 19	Mar 26	Oct 22
2007	Apr 11	Oct 29	Apr 11	Nov 3
2006	Apr 11	Oct 13	Apr 10	Oct 15
2005	May 4	Oct 29	Mar 22	Oct 29
2004	May 5	Nov 9	Apr 7	Nov 9
2003	Apr 25	Oct 3	Apr 1	Nov 9
2002	May 22	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 27	Oct 7	Apr 19	Oct 28
2000	Apr 28	Oct 31	Apr 1	Nov 16
1999	Apr 14	Oct 25	Mar 30	Oct 25
1998	Apr 12	Oct 23	Mar 25	Nov 5
1997	May 11	Oct 21	Apr 11	Oct 22
1996	no data	Oct 12	no data	Nov 2
1995	no data	Oct 16	no data	Nov 5
1994	Apr 23	Oct 11	Apr 8	Oct 28
1993	Apr 27	Oct 11	Mar 20	Nov 2
1992	Apr 30	Oct 18	Apr 7	Oct 19
1991	Apr 12	no data	Apr 4	no data
1990	Apr 20	Oct 20	Apr 19	Oct 27
1989	no data	Oct 22	no data	Nov 4
1988	May 2	Oct 6	Apr 20	Oct 6
1987	Apr 10	Oct 4	Apr 10	Oct 13
1986	May 4	Oct 7	May 4	Oct 16
1985	May 4	Oct 7	Apr 10	Nov 23
1984	May 17	Nov 3	Apr 12	Nov 3
1983	May 11	Sep 24	May 9	Nov 8
1982	Apr 29	Oct 17	Apr 28	Oct 17
1981	no data	Sep 23	no data	Oct 20
1980	May 10	Oct 6	May 9	Oct 6
1979	May 2	Oct 8	Apr 19	Oct 14
1978	no data	Oct 9	no data	Oct 18
1977	May 11	no data	Apr 9	no data
1976	May 9	Oct 12	Apr 29	Oct 18
1975	Apr 21	Oct 3	Apr 14	Oct 3
1974	May 7	Sep 24	Apr 10	Oct 3
1973	May 18	Oct 17	May 5	Oct 19
1972	Apr 27	Oct 10	Apr 26	Oct 20
1971	May 4	Nov 5	Apr 15	Nov 5
1970	May 7	Oct 17	Apr 11	Oct 17
1969	May 1	Oct 15	Apr 7	Oct 15
1968	May 7	Oct 5	Apr 2	Oct 5
1967	Apr 29	Sep 25	Apr 28	Oct 20
1966	May 11	Sep 16	May 10	Oct 7
1965	Apr 17	Oct 4	Apr 14	Oct 5
1964	Apr 16	Sep 14	Apr 10	Oct 6
1963	May 23	Sep 24	May 2	Oct 30
1962	Apr 24	Sep 21	Apr 21	Oct 25
1961	May 4	Sep 29	May 3	Oct 27
1960	May 2	Oct 21	Apr 11	Oct 21
1959	Apr 24	Sep 19	Apr 15	Oct 19
1958	Apr 30	Oct 2	Mar 23	Oct 29
1957	May 6	Oct 12	Apr 15	Oct 21
1954	May 5	Oct 7	Apr 9	Oct 7
1953	Apr 22	Oct 8	Apr 22	Oct 8
1952	Apr 17	no data	Apr 9	no data
1951	Apr 24	Sep 29	Apr 20	Oct 29

"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.