Last Frost Day

Frost history / St Inigoes Webster Nolf, MD

St Inigoes Webster Nolf, MD: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003757, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 21 ft, 38.142, -76.429. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 25Nov 12
EarliestMar 6 (2012)Oct 26 (2013)
LatestApr 18 (2018)Nov 30 (2024)
Trend1.3 days earlier per decade5.0 days later per decade
Years with data1516

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 26.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202007: Apr 112009: Mar 252010: Mar 92011: Mar 292012: Mar 62014: Mar 272016: Apr 102017: Mar 232018: Apr 182019: Apr 22020: Mar 82021: Mar 202022: Mar 302023: Mar 212024: Mar 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202007: Nov 82008: Nov 172009: Nov 62010: Nov 272011: Oct 312013: Oct 262014: Nov 82015: Nov 152016: Nov 122017: Nov 112019: Nov 92020: Nov 192021: Nov 202022: Nov 172023: Nov 32024: Nov 30

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2024Mar 22Nov 30Feb 20Nov 30
2023Mar 21Nov 3Mar 20Nov 29
2022Mar 30Nov 17Mar 13Nov 21
2021Mar 20Nov 20Mar 8none
2020Mar 8Nov 19Mar 1Dec 27
2019Apr 2Nov 9Mar 19Nov 14
2018Apr 18no dataMar 17no data
2017Mar 23Nov 11Mar 17Dec 12
2016Apr 10Nov 12Apr 6Nov 23
2015no dataNov 15no dataNov 24
2014Mar 27Nov 8Mar 27Nov 15
2013no dataOct 26no dataNov 13
2012Mar 6no dataFeb 21no data
2011Mar 29Oct 31Mar 29none
2010Mar 9Nov 27Feb 15Nov 29
2009Mar 25Nov 6Mar 25Dec 11
2008no dataNov 17no dataNov 22
2007Apr 11Nov 8Apr 10Dec 5

"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.