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Fort Necessity National Battlefield visitation by month and year

July is the busiest month at Fort Necessity, when the average temperature nearby is 67 degrees. February is the quietest, and the average temperature then is 27 degrees. An average July draws 45,075 visits where an average February draws 3,550. The crowd arrives with the warm weather and leaves with it. Annual visits fell 27.7 percent, from 312,104 in 2019 to 225,783 in 2025.

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Visits by month, with temperature and precipitation

Bars are the average recreation visits in each month over 2021 to 2025. The line is the average temperature at Chalk Hill 2 ENE, 2 miles from the park's reference point at 1,980 feet, station USC00361350 in the NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals. The lower panel is monthly rain and snow from the same station, also 1991 to 2020 averages.

Annual visits, 1979 to 2025

Recreation visits per calendar year. A year with a missing month is left blank rather than estimated.

The last ten years

Year	Recreation visits	Change on prior year
2025	225,783	-18.2%
2024	276,173	+10.9%
2023	248,948	-3.6%
2022	258,293	-6.0%
2021	274,853	+37.6%
2020	199,801	-36.0%
2019	312,104	+11.1%
2018	280,970	-4.5%
2017	294,145	+1.4%
2016	290,021	+3.3%

Visitation at other parks

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Source: NPS Visitor Use Statistics, monthly recreation visits, as compiled for Publicopia Labs. A year is shown only when all twelve months were reported. Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals are the 1991 to 2020 monthly averages published by NOAA NCEI for station USC00361350, 1,980 feet above sea level. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.