Oceana Nas, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013769, 1952 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 23 ft, 36.817, -76.033. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 23	Nov 18
Earliest	Feb 22 (1957)	Oct 23 (1976)
Latest	Apr 19 (2001)	Dec 18 (1998)
Trend	0.5 days later per decade	0.8 days later per decade
Years with data	70	66, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.

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.

Chart

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 1	no data	Feb 18	no data
2023	Mar 21	Nov 28	Mar 21	Nov 29
2022	Mar 28	Dec 1	Feb 15	Dec 3
2021	Mar 8	Nov 25	Mar 8	none
2020	Apr 16	Dec 3	Mar 8	Dec 26
2019	Mar 28	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Mar 19	Nov 21	Mar 17	Dec 6
2017	Mar 24	Nov 11	Mar 24	Nov 24
2016	Apr 6	Nov 12	Feb 15	Nov 22
2015	Mar 29	Nov 23	Mar 7	none
2014	Mar 27	Nov 15	Mar 14	Nov 19
2013	Mar 24	Nov 9	Mar 23	Nov 13
2012	Mar 11	Nov 25	Feb 21	Nov 29
2011	Mar 29	Nov 11	Mar 29	Dec 19
2010	Mar 17	Nov 28	Feb 28	Dec 6
2009	Mar 25	Dec 6	Mar 25	Dec 11
2008	Mar 10	Oct 31	Feb 28	Nov 22
2007	Apr 10	Nov 17	Mar 19	Dec 5
2005	Mar 19	Nov 18	Mar 9	Nov 19
2004	Mar 24	none	Mar 23	none
2003	Mar 11	Nov 26	Feb 24	none
2002	Mar 23	no data	Mar 23	no data
2001	Apr 19	Nov 13	Mar 28	Dec 22
1998	Mar 15	Dec 18	Mar 13	Dec 25
1997	Mar 17	Nov 17	Feb 18	Nov 18
1996	Mar 24	Nov 3	Mar 10	Nov 12
1995	Mar 11	Nov 9	Mar 11	Nov 16
1994	Mar 20	Dec 2	Feb 28	none
1993	Mar 19	Nov 8	Mar 19	Dec 12
1992	Apr 3	Nov 15	Mar 16	Dec 25
1991	Mar 17	Nov 18	Feb 17	Nov 27
1990	Mar 8	Nov 30	Mar 8	none
1989	Apr 12	Nov 24	Feb 26	Nov 24
1988	Mar 22	Nov 3	Mar 22	Dec 5
1987	Mar 25	Oct 23	Mar 6	Nov 22
1986	Mar 23	Nov 14	Mar 23	Dec 6
1985	Mar 16	no data	Mar 1	no data
1984	Mar 10	Nov 13	Mar 10	Nov 15
1983	Mar 13	no data	Feb 12	no data
1982	Apr 7	Nov 7	Mar 29	Dec 13
1981	Mar 26	Nov 21	Mar 22	Nov 22
1980	Mar 15	Nov 19	Mar 4	Nov 20
1979	Mar 19	Nov 30	Mar 16	Nov 30
1978	Mar 30	Dec 10	Mar 7	Dec 13
1977	Apr 10	Nov 26	Feb 22	Nov 26
1976	Mar 18	Oct 23	Mar 18	Nov 9
1975	Mar 10	Nov 1	Mar 10	Dec 18
1974	Mar 25	Nov 16	Mar 15	Nov 28
1973	Apr 15	Nov 7	Mar 1	Dec 11
1972	Mar 9	Nov 23	Feb 21	Nov 24
1971	Mar 26	Dec 2	Feb 17	Dec 19
1970	Mar 25	Nov 24	Mar 17	Nov 24
1969	Mar 16	Nov 15	Mar 16	Nov 22
1968	Mar 15	Dec 8	Mar 8	Dec 9
1967	Mar 25	Nov 9	Mar 20	Nov 16
1966	Mar 18	Nov 23	Mar 10	Dec 4
1965	Apr 5	Oct 29	Mar 21	Dec 1
1964	Apr 5	Nov 22	Apr 2	Nov 22
1963	Mar 3	Nov 4	Feb 28	Dec 5
1962	Mar 19	Oct 27	Mar 4	Dec 10
1961	Mar 18	Nov 11	Mar 11	Dec 14
1960	Mar 27	Dec 1	Mar 15	Dec 3
1959	Mar 23	Nov 18	Mar 19	Nov 19
1958	Mar 13	Nov 30	Feb 21	Nov 30
1957	Feb 22	Nov 11	Feb 22	Dec 11
1956	Mar 25	Nov 23	Mar 1	Nov 23
1955	Mar 28	Nov 26	Mar 27	Nov 29
1954	Apr 2	Nov 4	Mar 7	Dec 3
1953	Mar 9	Nov 27	Feb 18	Dec 17
1952	Mar 18	Oct 30	Mar 16	Dec 12

"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.