Parkersburg, WV: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013867, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 620 ft, 39.281, -81.557. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 16	Oct 26
Earliest	Mar 23 (2005)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Nov 22 (2024)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.6 days later per decade
Years with data	67	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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	Apr 8	Nov 22	Mar 24	Nov 30
2023	Apr 25	Nov 1	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Apr 21	Nov 15	Mar 30	Nov 19
2021	Apr 23	Nov 3	Apr 4	Nov 20
2020	May 10	Nov 14	Mar 8	Dec 15
2019	Apr 28	Nov 2	Apr 17	Nov 3
2018	Apr 21	Oct 22	Apr 5	Oct 22
2017	Mar 23	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 11
2014	Apr 17	Oct 30	Apr 17	Nov 14
2013	Apr 22	Oct 26	Mar 25	Nov 13
2012	Apr 13	Nov 6	Mar 11	Nov 6
2011	Apr 4	Oct 29	Mar 30	Nov 18
2010	May 10	Oct 30	Mar 28	Nov 6
2009	Apr 13	Oct 19	Mar 23	Dec 6
2008	Mar 30	Oct 30	Mar 26	Nov 11
2007	Apr 11	Oct 30	Apr 11	Nov 24
2006	Apr 10	Oct 15	Mar 28	Nov 3
2005	Mar 23	Oct 30	Mar 23	Nov 17
2004	Apr 29	Nov 9	Apr 6	Nov 14
2003	Apr 1	Oct 3	Mar 31	Nov 9
2002	May 23	Nov 2	Apr 8	Nov 28
2001	Apr 3	Oct 8	Mar 29	Oct 29
2000	Apr 14	Oct 29	Mar 19	Oct 31
1999	Apr 13	Oct 25	Mar 26	Nov 17
1998	Apr 12	Oct 23	Mar 25	Nov 5
1997	Apr 22	Oct 21	Apr 11	Oct 23
1996	May 15	Nov 2	Apr 10	Nov 4
1995	Apr 16	Oct 17	Apr 6	Nov 5
1994	Apr 24	Oct 28	Apr 9	Nov 23
1993	Apr 28	Oct 11	Apr 5	Nov 2
1992	Apr 30	Oct 18	Apr 7	Oct 19
1991	Apr 14	Oct 18	Apr 2	Nov 4
1990	Apr 20	Oct 20	Apr 18	Oct 29
1987	Apr 10	Oct 4	Apr 1	Oct 22
1985	Apr 11	Oct 18	Apr 11	Dec 3
1984	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 7
1982	Apr 23	no data	Apr 23	no data
1981	Apr 26	Oct 24	Mar 20	Oct 24
1980	Apr 17	Oct 26	Mar 27	Oct 27
1979	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 7	Oct 27
1978	Apr 22	Nov 10	Mar 18	Nov 28
1977	Apr 29	Oct 17	Apr 9	Nov 12
1976	Apr 28	Oct 18	Apr 13	Oct 23
1975	Apr 9	Oct 3	Apr 7	Nov 23
1974	Apr 10	Oct 3	Mar 25	Nov 16
1973	Apr 15	Nov 4	Apr 14	Nov 6
1972	Apr 9	Oct 19	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	Apr 15	Nov 5	Mar 31	Nov 7
1970	May 7	Oct 17	Apr 5	Nov 16
1969	Apr 7	Oct 18	Apr 1	Oct 23
1968	Apr 16	Oct 5	Mar 24	Nov 14
1967	Apr 28	Oct 20	Mar 19	Oct 29
1966	May 10	Oct 30	Mar 29	Oct 30
1965	Apr 3	Oct 5	Apr 3	Oct 29
1964	Apr 11	Oct 6	Apr 4	Oct 11
1963	May 2	Oct 31	Mar 23	Nov 25
1962	Apr 21	Oct 25	Apr 17	Oct 26
1961	Apr 30	Nov 8	Apr 3	Nov 9
1960	May 2	Oct 21	Apr 11	Oct 25
1959	Apr 14	Oct 29	Mar 28	Nov 3
1958	Apr 9	Oct 30	Mar 23	Nov 23
1957	Apr 15	Oct 20	Apr 15	Oct 28
1956	Apr 25	Nov 13	Mar 25	Nov 17
1955	Apr 8	Oct 25	Mar 31	Nov 5
1954	Apr 9	Oct 31	Apr 4	Nov 2
1953	Apr 21	Oct 8	Mar 10	Nov 6
1952	Apr 9	Oct 20	Mar 28	Oct 21
1951	Apr 18	Oct 29	Apr 18	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.