Bent Creek, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00310724, 1951 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,110 ft, 35.504, -82.597. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 30	Oct 13
Earliest	Apr 4 (2019)	Sep 14 (1953)
Latest	May 28 (1961)	Nov 6 (2021)
Trend	1.9 days earlier per decade	2.5 days later per decade
Years with data	68	66

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.

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
2023	Apr 26	Oct 9	Apr 10	Nov 1
2022	Apr 21	Oct 18	Apr 20	Oct 20
2021	Apr 25	Nov 6	Apr 24	Nov 7
2020	May 11	Oct 18	May 10	Nov 3
2019	Apr 4	Oct 19	Apr 4	Nov 2
2018	May 1	Oct 22	Mar 23	Oct 22
2017	Apr 10	Oct 18	Apr 9	Nov 17
2016	Apr 18	Oct 24	Apr 11	Nov 13
2015	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 19
2014	May 17	Oct 5	Apr 17	Nov 3
2013	May 14	Oct 24	Mar 30	Oct 26
2012	Apr 14	Nov 2	Apr 14	Nov 9
2011	May 5	Oct 22	Apr 7	Oct 30
2010	Apr 30	Oct 15	Mar 27	Oct 30
2009	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 9	Oct 19
2008	May 1	Oct 19	May 1	Oct 21
2007	Apr 11	Oct 29	Apr 11	Oct 30
2002	May 23	no data	Mar 28	no data
2001	Apr 27	Oct 8	Mar 28	Oct 8
2000	Apr 27	Oct 10	Apr 10	Oct 12
1999	Apr 19	Oct 22	Mar 28	Oct 25
1998	Apr 25	Oct 23	Apr 6	Oct 24
1997	May 17	Oct 23	Apr 15	Oct 23
1996	May 1	Oct 12	Apr 10	Nov 3
1995	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 3	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 8	Oct 27
1993	Apr 28	Oct 1	Mar 19	Oct 23
1992	Apr 29	Oct 20	Apr 29	Oct 20
1991	Apr 11	Oct 8	Mar 31	Oct 8
1990	Apr 19	Oct 20	Apr 13	Oct 25
1989	May 13	Oct 9	May 8	Nov 4
1988	May 2	Oct 6	Apr 20	Oct 8
1987	Apr 29	Oct 2	Apr 10	Oct 9
1986	May 4	Oct 17	May 4	Nov 14
1985	Apr 11	Oct 7	Apr 11	Nov 9
1984	Apr 19	Oct 3	Apr 19	Nov 7
1983	May 6	Sep 23	Apr 20	Oct 28
1982	May 1	Oct 17	Apr 24	Oct 27
1981	May 3	Sep 24	Apr 7	Oct 20
1980	May 10	Oct 7	Apr 17	Nov 6
1979	Apr 30	Oct 6	Apr 6	Oct 15
1978	May 3	Oct 9	Mar 31	Oct 9
1977	May 11	Oct 18	Apr 27	Oct 18
1976	May 5	Oct 15	Apr 13	Oct 22
1975	Apr 22	Oct 3	Apr 13	Oct 31
1974	Apr 26	no data	Apr 10	no data
1973	May 18	Oct 18	Apr 29	Oct 18
1972	Apr 28	Oct 2	Apr 10	Oct 20
1971	May 5	Nov 5	May 4	Nov 5
1970	May 7	Oct 5	Apr 8	Nov 8
1969	May 13	Oct 18	Apr 1	Oct 18
1968	May 22	Oct 5	Apr 26	Oct 5
1967	Apr 29	Sep 30	Apr 29	Oct 20
1966	Apr 17	Oct 2	Apr 17	Oct 21
1965	Apr 18	Oct 6	Apr 17	Oct 25
1964	Apr 16	Oct 6	Apr 11	Oct 7
1963	May 4	no data	May 2	no data
1962	Apr 22	Sep 21	Apr 22	Oct 24
1961	May 28	Oct 5	Apr 20	Oct 27
1960	May 14	Oct 21	May 14	Oct 22
1959	May 16	Oct 20	Apr 24	Nov 3
1958	Apr 17	Oct 13	Apr 2	Oct 30
1957	May 7	Oct 15	May 7	Oct 21
1956	May 17	Sep 21	Apr 22	Oct 8
1955	Apr 29	Oct 9	Apr 9	Oct 10
1954	May 22	Oct 8	May 12	Oct 8
1953	Apr 28	Sep 14	Apr 28	Oct 8
1952	May 14	Oct 4	Apr 8	Oct 4
1951	May 13	Oct 10	Apr 18	Oct 13

"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.