Albemarle, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00310090, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 610 ft, 35.399, -80.199. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 9	Oct 29
Earliest	Mar 7 (2009)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	May 8 (1989)	Nov 28 (2009)
Trend	1.8 days earlier per decade	2.3 days later per decade
Years with data	69	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 22 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.

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
2025	Mar 7	Nov 10	Mar 3	Nov 10
2024	Mar 18	Nov 21	Feb 24	Nov 29
2023	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Apr 9	Oct 19	Mar 27	Nov 14
2021	Apr 22	Nov 5	Apr 3	Nov 14
2020	Apr 10	Nov 2	Mar 7	Nov 18
2019	Apr 2	Nov 8	Mar 6	Nov 8
2018	Apr 16	no data	Mar 15	no data
2017	Mar 18	Nov 10	Mar 16	Nov 19
2016	Apr 10	Nov 12	Feb 28	Nov 12
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 2
2013	Mar 29	Oct 25	Mar 29	Oct 25
2012	Mar 11	Nov 6	Feb 21	Nov 25
2011	Apr 6	no data	Mar 12	no data
2010	Mar 7	Nov 6	Feb 28	Nov 28
2009	Mar 7	Nov 28	Mar 5	Dec 6
2008	Mar 26	Oct 29	Mar 10	Nov 19
2007	Apr 9	Nov 7	Apr 9	Nov 17
2006	Mar 27	Oct 25	Feb 28	Nov 5
2005	no data	Nov 18	no data	Nov 18
2004	no data	Nov 15	no data	Nov 27
2003	Apr 1	Nov 25	Feb 18	Nov 26
2002	Mar 23	Nov 18	Mar 23	Nov 21
2001	Apr 20	Oct 28	Mar 10	Oct 29
2000	no data	Nov 16	no data	Nov 21
1999	no data	Oct 25	no data	Nov 4
1998	Apr 6	no data	Mar 23	no data
1997	Apr 19	no data	Mar 17	no data
1996	no data	Nov 4	no data	Nov 4
1995	Apr 3	no data	Mar 11	no data
1994	Mar 30	Oct 27	Mar 17	Nov 12
1993	Apr 28	Oct 24	Mar 19	Nov 2
1992	Apr 6	Oct 20	Apr 6	Oct 20
1991	Mar 20	Oct 30	Mar 12	Nov 5
1990	Apr 19	Oct 27	Mar 21	Nov 18
1989	May 8	Nov 11	Apr 12	Nov 17
1988	Apr 20	Oct 13	Mar 18	Oct 14
1987	Apr 1	Oct 9	Apr 1	Oct 22
1986	May 4	Oct 18	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Nov 9	Apr 10	Nov 9
1984	Apr 11	Nov 7	Mar 12	Nov 8
1983	Apr 22	Oct 28	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	Apr 24	Oct 17	Apr 7	Nov 8
1981	Apr 7	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
1980	Apr 6	Oct 7	Mar 22	Nov 12
1979	Mar 27	Oct 15	Mar 26	Nov 15
1978	Apr 22	Nov 25	Mar 18	Dec 10
1977	Mar 23	Oct 18	Mar 8	Nov 11
1976	Apr 13	Oct 22	Mar 18	Oct 29
1975	Apr 13	Nov 1	Apr 13	Nov 14
1974	Apr 11	Oct 3	Apr 10	Oct 22
1973	Apr 14	Oct 18	Apr 12	Nov 10
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 21
1971	Apr 15	Nov 5	Mar 31	Nov 8
1970	Apr 8	Oct 18	Apr 8	Oct 18
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Mar 28	Nov 6
1968	Apr 12	Oct 5	Mar 24	Nov 14
1967	Mar 23	Oct 29	Mar 19	Nov 7
1966	Apr 11	Nov 3	Mar 29	Nov 4
1965	Apr 3	Oct 26	Mar 22	Oct 30
1964	Apr 10	Oct 12	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	Apr 16	Oct 31	Mar 23	Nov 3
1962	Apr 17	Oct 25	Mar 19	Oct 27
1961	Apr 20	Oct 28	Mar 17	Nov 21
1960	Apr 11	Oct 22	Apr 11	Nov 8
1959	Apr 5	Nov 9	Apr 3	Nov 18
1958	Mar 23	Oct 31	Mar 16	Nov 29
1957	Apr 11	Oct 14	Mar 10	Oct 29
1956	Apr 21	Nov 10	Mar 25	Nov 22
1955	Mar 31	Oct 26	Mar 28	Nov 5
1954	Apr 2	Oct 17	Mar 22	Nov 1
1953	Apr 22	Nov 6	Apr 17	Nov 7
1952	Apr 8	Oct 21	Mar 17	Oct 21
1951	Apr 5	Nov 4	Mar 25	Nov 4

"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.