Frost history / Saint Albans, WV
Saint Albans, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00467852, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 646 ft, 38.383, -81.834. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 18 | Oct 25 |
| Earliest | Apr 5 (2013) | Oct 9 (2022) |
| Latest | May 10 (2020) | Nov 4 (2021) |
| Trend | 5.3 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 12 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.
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 14 | Oct 24 | Apr 10 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 17 | Mar 25 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Apr 26 | Nov 1 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 9 | Apr 3 | Nov 14 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 4 | Apr 23 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 17 | Apr 19 | Nov 18 |
| 2019 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2017 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 14 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2015 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Nov 21 |
| 2013 | Apr 5 | Oct 26 | Apr 4 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 13 | Oct 30 | Apr 12 | Nov 5 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | no data | Mar 30 | no data |
| 2010 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 13 | Oct 19 | Mar 23 | Nov 6 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 19 | Mar 26 | Oct 22 |
"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.