Last Frost Day

Frost history / Plattsburgh Intl Ap, NY

Plattsburgh Intl Ap, NY: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00064776, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 234 ft, 44.650, -73.467. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 8Oct 11
EarliestApr 18 (2019)Sep 19 (2014)
LatestMay 19 (2009)Oct 31 (2023)
Trend2.3 days earlier per decade6.5 days later per decade
Years with data1718

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 21 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202008: May 22009: May 192010: May 132011: May 12012: May 72013: May 152014: May 82015: Apr 222016: May 172017: May 92018: May 122019: Apr 182020: May 92021: May 72022: May 82023: May 182024: Apr 27

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202007: Oct 132008: Sep 232009: Oct 22010: Oct 102011: Oct 72012: Oct 92013: Oct 232014: Sep 192015: Oct 152016: Oct 112017: Oct 132018: Oct 142019: Oct 52020: Sep 192021: Oct 232022: Oct 32023: Oct 312024: Oct 17

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
2024Apr 27Oct 17Apr 26Nov 3
2023May 18Oct 31Apr 10Oct 31
2022May 8Oct 3Apr 21Oct 28
2021May 7Oct 23Apr 22Oct 29
2020May 9Sep 19Apr 24Oct 12
2019Apr 18Oct 5Apr 5Nov 2
2018May 12Oct 14Apr 23Oct 26
2017May 9Oct 13Apr 9Nov 7
2016May 17Oct 11Apr 29Nov 1
2015Apr 22Oct 15Apr 16Oct 17
2014May 8Sep 19Apr 20Nov 13
2013May 15Oct 23Apr 22Oct 24
2012May 7Oct 9Apr 30Oct 13
2011May 1Oct 7Apr 16Oct 29
2010May 13Oct 10Apr 14Oct 23
2009May 19Oct 2Apr 20Oct 16
2008May 2Sep 23May 1Oct 19
2007no dataOct 13no dataOct 29

"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.