Last Frost Day

Frost history / Georgetown Sussex Co Ap, DE

Georgetown Sussex Co Ap, DE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013764, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 51 ft, 38.689, -75.359. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 8Nov 6
EarliestMar 19 (2000)Oct 9 (2001)
LatestApr 22 (2020)Nov 17 (2020)
Trend1.6 days earlier per decade4.7 days later per decade
Years with data2727

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.

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 302000201020201998: Apr 131999: Apr 62000: Mar 192001: Apr 192002: Apr 82003: Apr 12004: Mar 242005: Apr 172006: Apr 102007: Apr 142008: Apr 162009: Apr 172010: Mar 282011: Mar 302012: Apr 82013: Apr 72014: Apr 172015: Apr 22016: Apr 162017: Mar 242018: Apr 112019: Apr 22020: Apr 222021: Apr 32022: Apr 112023: Mar 212024: Mar 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201998: Nov 51999: Nov 82000: Oct 292001: Oct 92002: Nov 22003: Oct 232004: Nov 92005: Nov 122006: Oct 152007: Nov 52008: Oct 312009: Nov 62010: Nov 142011: Oct 302012: Nov 62013: Oct 262014: Nov 82015: Nov 152016: Nov 122017: Nov 102018: Nov 112019: Nov 42020: Nov 172021: Nov 142022: Nov 142023: Nov 22024: Oct 28

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 25Oct 28Mar 22Nov 30
2023Mar 21Nov 2Mar 20Nov 28
2022Apr 11Nov 14Mar 30Nov 20
2021Apr 3Nov 14Mar 8Nov 29
2020Apr 22Nov 17Mar 8Nov 19
2019Apr 2Nov 4Mar 8Nov 9
2018Apr 11Nov 11Mar 27Nov 22
2017Mar 24Nov 10Mar 23Nov 11
2016Apr 16Nov 12Apr 6Nov 28
2015Apr 2Nov 15Mar 29Nov 23
2014Apr 17Nov 8Mar 27Nov 15
2013Apr 7Oct 26Apr 3Nov 13
2012Apr 8Nov 6Mar 11Nov 28
2011Mar 30Oct 30Mar 29Dec 11
2010Mar 28Nov 14Feb 17Nov 28
2009Apr 17Nov 6Mar 25Dec 11
2008Apr 16Oct 31Mar 24Nov 22
2007Apr 14Nov 5Apr 9Nov 24
2006Apr 10Oct 15Mar 20Nov 4
2005Apr 17Nov 12Mar 22Nov 18
2004Mar 24Nov 9Mar 23Nov 10
2003Apr 1Oct 23Apr 1Oct 24
2002Apr 8Nov 2Apr 7Nov 28
2001Apr 19Oct 9Apr 3Nov 10
2000Mar 19Oct 29Mar 18Nov 16
1999Apr 6Nov 8Mar 23Nov 17
1998Apr 13Nov 5Mar 23Nov 7

"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.