Last Frost Day

Frost history / Bryson City 4, NC

Bryson City 4, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00311165, 2011 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,985 ft, 35.447, -83.462. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 23Oct 22
EarliestApr 3 (2019)Oct 3 (2011)
LatestMay 13 (2013)Nov 2 (2020)
Trend3.6 days earlier per decade9.2 days later per decade
Years with data1312

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3020202011: May 52012: Apr 142013: May 132014: Apr 172015: Apr 252016: Apr 102017: Apr 92018: Apr 302019: Apr 32020: May 102021: Apr 232022: Apr 202023: Apr 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120202011: Oct 32012: Nov 12013: Oct 242014: Oct 52015: Oct 172016: Oct 232017: Oct 262018: Oct 212019: Oct 182020: Nov 22021: Oct 272022: Oct 18

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2023Apr 25no dataMar 21no data
2022Apr 20Oct 18Apr 10Oct 20
2021Apr 23Oct 27Apr 22Nov 7
2020May 10Nov 2Apr 16Nov 2
2019Apr 3Oct 18Apr 3Nov 1
2018Apr 30Oct 21Apr 20Nov 11
2017Apr 9Oct 26Mar 20Oct 30
2016Apr 10Oct 23Apr 10Nov 11
2015Apr 25Oct 17Apr 6Oct 19
2014Apr 17Oct 5Apr 17Nov 2
2013May 13Oct 24Apr 1Oct 25
2012Apr 14Nov 1Apr 13Nov 1
2011May 5Oct 3Apr 7Oct 30

"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.