Last Frost Day

Frost history / Newport News Intl Ap, VA

Newport News Intl Ap, VA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00093741, 2001 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 42 ft, 37.132, -76.493. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 30Nov 10
EarliestMar 1 (2024)Oct 8 (2001)
LatestApr 23 (2021)Dec 7 (2009)
Trend0.6 days earlier per decade8.5 days later per decade
Years with data2424

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 26.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202001: Apr 192002: Apr 72003: Mar 312004: Mar 242005: Mar 182006: Apr 102007: Apr 102008: Mar 242009: Mar 252010: Mar 92011: Apr 62012: Mar 112013: Mar 232014: Mar 272015: Mar 292016: Apr 102017: Apr 82018: Apr 112019: Mar 282020: Mar 82021: Apr 232022: Apr 202023: Apr 112024: Mar 1

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26201020202001: Oct 82002: Oct 312003: Oct 242004: Nov 102005: Oct 302006: Nov 52007: Nov 72008: Oct 302009: Dec 72010: Nov 82011: Nov 122012: Nov 252013: Nov 92014: Nov 32015: Nov 152016: Nov 122017: Nov 112018: Nov 112019: Nov 92020: Nov 182021: Nov 142022: Nov 142023: Nov 22024: Nov 27

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