Frost history / Aurora 6 N, NC
Aurora 6 N, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00310375, 1973 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 35.387, -76.776. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 16 | Nov 26 |
| Earliest | Feb 13 (2012) | Oct 29 (1976) |
| Latest | Apr 20 (1983) | Dec 20 (1983) |
| Trend | 1.8 days earlier per decade | 0.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 36 | 38, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Dec 6.
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)
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 4 | Nov 11 | Mar 3 | Nov 29 |
| 2024 | Mar 25 | Nov 30 | Feb 8 | Dec 1 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 3 | Mar 21 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 30 | Nov 18 | Mar 29 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Nov 24 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | no data | Feb 13 | no data |
| 2011 | Feb 23 | none | Jan 24 | none |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Dec 6 | Feb 17 | Dec 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 5 | Dec 12 | Mar 4 | Dec 21 |
| 2008 | Feb 28 | Nov 19 | Feb 28 | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | Mar 19 | Dec 7 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2006 | Feb 28 | Dec 8 | Feb 27 | Dec 8 |
| 2005 | Mar 6 | Dec 14 | Jan 29 | Dec 14 |
| 2000 | no data | Nov 21 | no data | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Dec 1 | Mar 9 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 15 | Dec 18 | Mar 13 | Dec 25 |
| 1997 | Feb 18 | Nov 17 | Jan 20 | Nov 18 |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | Nov 15 | Mar 11 | Dec 20 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 9 | Feb 13 | Dec 11 |
| 1994 | Mar 17 | Dec 12 | Feb 28 | none |
| 1993 | Mar 20 | Dec 12 | Mar 16 | Dec 12 |
| 1992 | Apr 3 | Dec 6 | Jan 25 | Dec 6 |
| 1991 | Feb 27 | Nov 27 | Feb 17 | Dec 5 |
| 1990 | no data | Dec 5 | no data | none |
| 1989 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 22 | Dec 5 | Feb 26 | Dec 12 |
| 1987 | Mar 17 | Nov 12 | Mar 5 | Nov 22 |
| 1986 | Mar 22 | Nov 14 | Mar 9 | Nov 14 |
| 1985 | Apr 10 | Dec 3 | Feb 16 | Dec 15 |
| 1984 | Mar 11 | no data | Feb 7 | no data |
| 1983 | Apr 20 | Dec 20 | Apr 20 | Dec 25 |
| 1982 | no data | Dec 11 | no data | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | Mar 21 | Nov 22 | Mar 20 | Dec 10 |
| 1980 | Mar 13 | Nov 29 | Mar 4 | Dec 21 |
| 1979 | Mar 16 | no data | Feb 20 | no data |
| 1978 | Mar 5 | Nov 26 | Mar 5 | Dec 10 |
| 1977 | Mar 25 | Nov 14 | Feb 22 | Nov 27 |
| 1976 | Mar 18 | Oct 29 | Feb 8 | Nov 14 |
| 1975 | Mar 10 | Nov 15 | Mar 4 | Dec 19 |
| 1974 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 | Feb 27 | Nov 27 |
| 1973 | Mar 1 | Nov 10 | Feb 19 | Dec 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.