Frost history / Charlottesville 2 Sse, VA
Charlottesville 2 Sse, VA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003759, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,177 ft, 37.998, -78.466. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 29 | Nov 10 |
| Earliest | Mar 20 (2023) | Oct 28 (2011) |
| Latest | Apr 22 (2021) | Nov 28 (2009) |
| Trend | 3.7 days later per decade | 1.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 17 | 18 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mar 24 | Nov 13 | Mar 24 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 20 | Nov 1 | Mar 20 | Nov 28 |
| 2022 | Mar 29 | Nov 14 | Mar 29 | Nov 21 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 20 | Apr 2 | Nov 23 |
| 2020 | Apr 15 | Nov 18 | Feb 28 | Dec 7 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Nov 8 | Apr 1 | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 | Apr 8 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 23 | Nov 10 | Mar 23 | Nov 10 |
| 2016 | Apr 10 | Nov 20 | Apr 10 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 29 | Nov 22 | Mar 29 | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 8 | Apr 16 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Apr 4 | Nov 4 | Mar 22 | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Mar 27 | Nov 5 | Mar 6 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Mar 28 | Oct 28 | Mar 27 | Dec 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 27 | Nov 7 | Mar 27 | Dec 3 |
| 2009 | Mar 24 | Nov 28 | Mar 24 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Nov 11 | Mar 9 | Nov 18 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Nov 24 |
"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.