Wheeling, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00469482, 1988 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 645 ft, 40.057, -80.728. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 20	Oct 31
Earliest	Mar 23 (2005)	Oct 8 (2001)
Latest	Apr 28 (2004)	Nov 11 (2005)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.9 days later per decade
Years with data	27	24

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.

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	Nov 7	Apr 10	Nov 11
2024	Apr 23	Oct 28	Mar 26	Nov 30
2023	Apr 26	Oct 24	Mar 22	Nov 2
2014	Apr 24	Nov 3	Apr 17	Nov 14
2013	Apr 22	Oct 25	Apr 7	Nov 13
2012	Apr 14	Nov 6	Mar 11	Nov 6
2011	Apr 6	Oct 31	Mar 30	Nov 18
2010	Apr 12	Nov 1	Mar 28	Nov 7
2008	no data	Oct 23	no data	Nov 11
2007	Apr 11	no data	Apr 11	no data
2006	Apr 10	Oct 16	Mar 28	Nov 3
2005	Mar 23	Nov 11	Mar 18	Nov 17
2004	Apr 28	Nov 9	Apr 7	Nov 9
2003	Apr 25	no data	Apr 1	no data
2002	Apr 24	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 2
2001	Apr 20	Oct 8	Mar 29	Nov 12
2000	Apr 27	Oct 28	Mar 19	Nov 16
1999	Apr 13	Nov 4	Mar 28	Nov 17
1998	Apr 13	no data	Mar 25	no data
1997	Apr 21	Oct 23	Apr 11	Oct 23
1996	Apr 12	Nov 2	Apr 10	Nov 4
1995	Apr 16	Nov 4	Apr 6	Nov 5
1994	Apr 24	Nov 11	Apr 9	Nov 23
1993	Apr 28	Oct 11	Mar 20	Nov 2
1992	Apr 13	Oct 20	Apr 5	Oct 20
1990	Apr 20	no data	Apr 10	no data
1989	Apr 26	Nov 4	Apr 13	Nov 4
1988	Apr 20	Oct 12	Mar 22	Oct 27

"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.