Frost history / Columbia Ag Gum Neck, NC
Columbia Ag Gum Neck, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00311949, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 10 ft, 35.711, -76.127. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 25 | Nov 17 |
| Earliest | Feb 26 (2024) | Oct 26 (2013) |
| Latest | Apr 11 (2016) | Nov 30 (2024) |
| Trend | 9.9 days earlier per decade | 8.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 17 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 29.
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 8 | Nov 11 | Mar 4 | Nov 29 |
| 2024 | Feb 26 | Nov 30 | Feb 22 | Dec 1 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 3 | Mar 22 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 30 | Nov 18 | Mar 29 | Nov 21 |
| 2021 | Apr 4 | Nov 17 | Mar 9 | Nov 24 |
| 2020 | Mar 9 | Nov 19 | Mar 8 | Dec 3 |
| 2019 | Mar 25 | Nov 10 | Mar 8 | Dec 20 |
| 2018 | Mar 25 | Nov 28 | Mar 7 | Nov 30 |
| 2017 | Mar 25 | Nov 18 | Mar 18 | Dec 13 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 21 | Feb 20 | Nov 22 |
| 2015 | Apr 3 | Nov 24 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 16 |
| 2013 | Mar 30 | Oct 26 | Mar 29 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Mar 12 | Nov 25 | Feb 27 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Mar 30 | Oct 31 | Mar 30 | Dec 2 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 2009 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 26 | no data |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 31 |
"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.