Brevard, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00311055, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,175 ft, 35.228, -82.736. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 26	Oct 16
Earliest	Apr 4 (2019)	Sep 14 (1953)
Latest	May 29 (1961)	Dec 3 (1985)
Trend	2.8 days earlier per decade	2.7 days later per decade
Years with data	63	61

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.

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	Apr 14	Oct 23	Mar 12	Nov 11
2024	Apr 8	Oct 17	Mar 20	Nov 23
2023	Apr 12	Nov 1	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Apr 21	Oct 18	Apr 21	Oct 19
2021	Apr 24	Nov 8	Apr 23	Nov 8
2020	May 11	Oct 18	Apr 12	Nov 3
2019	Apr 4	Oct 18	Apr 3	Nov 3
2018	Apr 30	Oct 22	Apr 18	Nov 11
2017	Apr 10	Oct 25	Mar 21	Oct 30
2016	Apr 17	Oct 24	Apr 11	Nov 11
2015	Apr 6	Oct 17	Apr 6	Oct 19
2014	Apr 18	Oct 5	Apr 18	Nov 3
2013	Apr 7	Oct 24	Mar 30	Oct 26
2012	Apr 14	Nov 1	Apr 13	Nov 1
2011	May 6	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 30
2010	Apr 20	Oct 16	Mar 25	Nov 6
2009	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 10	Oct 19
2008	May 2	Oct 19	Apr 17	Oct 29
2007	no data	Oct 29	no data	Oct 31
2006	Apr 10	no data	Mar 27	no data
2005	Apr 29	Oct 26	Mar 21	Oct 29
2004	May 4	Nov 6	Apr 10	Nov 14
2003	Apr 11	Oct 16	Mar 31	Nov 13
2002	Apr 7	Oct 18	Apr 7	Nov 1
2001	Apr 19	Oct 7	Apr 19	Oct 17
2000	Apr 27	Oct 9	Mar 14	Oct 10
1999	Apr 19	Oct 23	Mar 28	Oct 24
1998	Apr 13	Oct 22	Mar 23	Oct 23
1997	no data	Oct 22	no data	Oct 28
1989	May 13	Oct 9	May 8	Oct 20
1988	Apr 20	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 8
1987	Apr 29	Oct 4	Apr 11	Oct 9
1986	May 4	Oct 17	Apr 24	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Dec 3	Apr 10	Dec 3
1984	May 17	Oct 3	May 17	Nov 7
1983	Apr 21	Sep 23	Apr 21	Oct 28
1982	May 1	Sep 23	Apr 24	Oct 19
1981	May 3	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 3
1980	Apr 17	Oct 6	Apr 17	Nov 6
1979	Apr 30	Oct 14	Mar 27	Oct 15
1978	Apr 23	Oct 8	Apr 22	Oct 9
1977	May 11	Oct 4	Mar 24	Oct 18
1976	Apr 28	Oct 18	Apr 27	Oct 18
1975	Apr 22	Oct 3	Apr 13	Oct 31
1974	Apr 26	Oct 3	Apr 25	Oct 3
1973	May 18	Oct 18	May 18	Oct 18
1972	Apr 28	Oct 11	Apr 27	Oct 20
1971	May 4	Oct 8	May 4	Nov 5
1970	May 7	Sep 30	Apr 8	Oct 17
1969	May 13	Oct 18	May 13	Oct 18
1968	May 7	Oct 5	Apr 26	Oct 5
1967	May 17	Sep 29	May 16	Oct 20
1966	no data	Oct 2	no data	Oct 21
1965	Apr 30	no data	Apr 17	no data
1963	May 4	no data	May 2	no data
1962	Apr 22	Sep 29	Apr 22	Oct 25
1961	May 29	Oct 15	Apr 20	Oct 27
1960	May 14	Oct 21	May 14	Oct 25
1959	Apr 24	Oct 20	Apr 15	Nov 3
1958	Apr 13	Oct 12	Apr 8	Oct 21
1957	May 7	Oct 15	Apr 15	Oct 20
1956	Apr 22	no data	Apr 21	no data
1955	Apr 29	Oct 10	Apr 1	Oct 15
1954	May 22	Oct 8	Apr 2	Oct 17
1953	Apr 28	Sep 14	Apr 22	Oct 26
1951	Apr 18	no data	Apr 18	no data

"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.