Candler 1 W, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00311420, 1994 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,240 ft, 35.545, -82.699. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 22	Oct 21
Earliest	Apr 4 (2019)	Oct 5 (1996)
Latest	May 26 (2023)	Nov 6 (2021)
Trend	1.8 days later per decade	1.5 days later per decade
Years with data	18	18

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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
2024	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 23	Oct 18
2023	May 26	Oct 9	Mar 22	Nov 1
2022	Apr 22	Oct 18	Apr 21	Oct 20
2021	Apr 24	Nov 6	Apr 22	Nov 7
2020	May 11	Oct 18	May 10	Nov 3
2019	Apr 4	Oct 24	Apr 3	Nov 2
2018	Apr 30	Oct 22	Apr 20	Nov 11
2017	Apr 10	Oct 26	Mar 21	Oct 30
2016	Apr 13	Oct 23	Apr 11	Nov 20
2015	Apr 6	Oct 19	Apr 6	Oct 19
2014	Apr 17	Oct 5	Apr 16	Nov 1
2013	Apr 21	Oct 24	Mar 30	Oct 24
2012	Apr 14	Nov 3	Mar 11	Nov 9
2011	Apr 7	Oct 22	Apr 7	Oct 30
1998	Apr 25	Oct 14	Apr 7	Oct 23
1996	May 2	Oct 5	May 1	Nov 3
1995	Apr 29	Oct 17	Apr 4	Oct 30
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 8	Oct 27

"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.