Frost history / Sutton Lake, WV
Sutton Lake, WV: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00468662, 1991 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 868 ft, 38.660, -80.696. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 25 | Oct 25 |
| Earliest | Apr 7 (2011) | Oct 3 (2003) |
| Latest | May 22 (2002) | Nov 12 (2016) |
| Trend | 2.9 days earlier per decade | 3.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 28 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 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 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 26 | Mar 26 | Nov 23 |
| 2023 | Apr 26 | Nov 1 | Apr 25 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 29 | Oct 20 | Apr 21 | Nov 14 |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Nov 12 |
| 2017 | May 9 | Nov 2 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 14 | Nov 12 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 25 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 15 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | Apr 22 | Oct 25 | Apr 7 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Apr 25 | Oct 30 | Apr 12 | Nov 6 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | Oct 29 | Apr 7 | Nov 5 |
| 2010 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2009 | Apr 13 | no data | Apr 13 | no data |
| 2008 | Apr 18 | Oct 20 | Apr 17 | Oct 22 |
| 2007 | Apr 16 | Oct 29 | Apr 16 | Nov 8 |
| 2006 | Apr 11 | Oct 13 | Mar 24 | Oct 13 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 29 | Mar 27 | Nov 12 |
| 2004 | May 5 | Nov 6 | Apr 7 | Nov 9 |
| 2003 | Apr 25 | Oct 3 | Apr 1 | Nov 9 |
| 2002 | May 22 | Nov 2 | Apr 8 | Nov 2 |
| 2001 | Apr 29 | Oct 7 | Mar 30 | Oct 28 |
| 2000 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 1999 | Apr 26 | no data | Apr 1 | no data |
| 1998 | Apr 29 | Oct 15 | Mar 26 | Nov 5 |
| 1997 | May 6 | Oct 22 | May 6 | Oct 23 |
| 1996 | May 15 | Nov 3 | Apr 12 | Nov 4 |
| 1995 | Apr 27 | Oct 17 | Apr 17 | Nov 5 |
| 1994 | Apr 24 | Oct 25 | Apr 9 | Oct 29 |
| 1993 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 1992 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 18 |
| 1991 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
"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.