Frost history / Niagara Falls Intl Ap, NY
Niagara Falls Intl Ap, NY: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00004724, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 585 ft, 43.107, -78.945. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 30 | Oct 17 |
| Earliest | Apr 8 (1955) | Sep 24 (1963) |
| Latest | May 23 (2015) | Nov 7 (2017) |
| Trend | 0.6 days later per decade | 2.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 34 | 34 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apr 26 | Oct 27 | Mar 30 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Apr 27 | Oct 23 | Apr 9 | Nov 20 |
| 2022 | Apr 30 | Oct 21 | Apr 18 | Nov 19 |
| 2021 | May 17 | Nov 4 | Apr 4 | Nov 23 |
| 2020 | no data | Oct 25 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 2019 | Apr 29 | Oct 19 | Apr 29 | Nov 8 |
| 2018 | Apr 30 | Oct 18 | Apr 21 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Apr 13 | Nov 7 | Mar 23 | Nov 10 |
| 2016 | Apr 27 | Nov 7 | Apr 13 | Nov 22 |
| 2015 | May 23 | Oct 18 | Apr 25 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 24 | Oct 12 | Apr 17 | Nov 8 |
| 2013 | Apr 22 | Oct 28 | Apr 21 | Oct 29 |
| 2012 | Apr 30 | Oct 12 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 |
| 2011 | Apr 22 | Oct 27 | Apr 2 | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | May 10 | Oct 13 | Mar 31 | Nov 2 |
| 2009 | May 11 | Oct 11 | Apr 13 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 7 | Apr 30 | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | Apr 19 | Oct 28 | Apr 15 | Nov 2 |
| 2006 | May 7 | Oct 26 | Apr 26 | Nov 4 |
| 2005 | May 5 | Oct 28 | Mar 27 | Nov 17 |
| 2004 | May 4 | Oct 12 | May 4 | Nov 9 |
| 2003 | Apr 27 | Oct 3 | Apr 24 | Nov 8 |
| 2002 | May 20 | Oct 15 | Apr 28 | Oct 24 |
| 1970 | May 7 | Oct 17 | Apr 13 | Nov 23 |
| 1969 | Apr 30 | no data | Apr 20 | no data |
| 1963 | May 1 | Sep 24 | Apr 8 | Nov 24 |
| 1960 | Apr 20 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
| 1959 | May 16 | Oct 29 | Apr 22 | Nov 7 |
| 1958 | May 10 | Oct 6 | Apr 10 | Oct 6 |
| 1957 | May 3 | Sep 28 | Apr 15 | Nov 10 |
| 1956 | May 17 | Oct 11 | Apr 25 | Nov 10 |
| 1955 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 | Apr 8 | Nov 6 |
| 1954 | Apr 9 | Oct 7 | Apr 9 | Nov 12 |
| 1953 | Apr 29 | Oct 8 | Apr 18 | Nov 5 |
| 1952 | Apr 12 | Oct 11 | Mar 30 | Oct 21 |
| 1951 | no data | Oct 13 | no data | Nov 3 |
"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.