Last Frost Day

Frost history / York Ap, PA

York Ap, PA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00093778, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 486 ft, 39.918, -76.874. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 26Oct 19
EarliestApr 2 (2011)Sep 20 (2020)
LatestMay 22 (2002)Nov 2 (2021)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)3.2 days later per decade
Years with data2727

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201998: Apr 281999: Apr 262000: Apr 142001: May 142002: May 222003: Apr 142004: Apr 162005: May 72006: Apr 302007: Apr 212008: Apr 162009: Apr 242010: May 112011: Apr 22012: Apr 302013: May 142014: Apr 212015: Apr 272016: Apr 242017: May 92018: Apr 212019: Apr 292020: May 92021: Apr 262022: Apr 302023: Apr 252024: Apr 23

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 112000201020201998: Oct 221999: Oct 62000: Sep 292001: Oct 72002: Oct 152003: Oct 32004: Oct 172005: Oct 282006: Oct 132007: Oct 292008: Oct 192009: Oct 142010: Oct 232011: Oct 232012: Oct 122013: Oct 272014: Oct 202015: Oct 182016: Oct 112017: Oct 272018: Oct 192019: Oct 192020: Sep 202021: Nov 22022: Oct 212023: Oct 242024: 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 23Oct 17Mar 25Nov 13
2023Apr 25Oct 24Apr 9Nov 2
2022Apr 30Oct 21Apr 29Oct 30
2021Apr 26Nov 2Apr 3Nov 4
2020May 9Sep 20Apr 22Nov 18
2019Apr 29Oct 19Apr 3Nov 2
2018Apr 21Oct 19Apr 21Nov 10
2017May 9Oct 27Mar 23Nov 10
2016Apr 24Oct 11Apr 14Oct 26
2015Apr 27Oct 18Apr 25Oct 18
2014Apr 21Oct 20Apr 17Nov 8
2013May 14Oct 27Apr 6Nov 4
2012Apr 30Oct 12Apr 6Oct 13
2011Apr 2Oct 23Mar 30Oct 30
2010May 11Oct 23Mar 27Nov 1
2009Apr 24Oct 14Apr 13Nov 4
2008Apr 16Oct 19Apr 3Oct 20
2007Apr 21Oct 29Apr 14Nov 8
2006Apr 30Oct 13Apr 10Oct 15
2005May 7Oct 28Apr 5Oct 31
2004Apr 16Oct 17Apr 16Nov 9
2003Apr 14Oct 3Apr 1Nov 9
2002May 22Oct 15May 4Oct 31
2001May 14Oct 7Apr 29Oct 7
2000Apr 14Sep 29Apr 13Oct 29
1999Apr 26Oct 6Apr 25Oct 28
1998Apr 28Oct 22Apr 12Oct 30

"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.