Edenton, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00312635, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 10 ft, 36.016, -76.552. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 26	Nov 15
Earliest	Mar 1 (1973)	Oct 20 (1981)
Latest	Apr 22 (1953)	Dec 18 (1998)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.3 days later per decade
Years with data	72	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 27.

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	Mar 9	Nov 11	Mar 3	Nov 29
2024	Mar 25	Nov 30	Feb 8	Dec 1
2023	Mar 21	Nov 3	Mar 21	Nov 29
2022	Mar 29	Nov 18	Mar 29	Nov 21
2021	Apr 3	Nov 24	Mar 8	Nov 24
2020	Mar 8	Nov 19	Mar 8	Dec 3
2019	Mar 27	Nov 9	Mar 6	Nov 13
2018	Mar 27	Nov 11	Mar 6	Nov 23
2017	Mar 23	Nov 11	Mar 17	Dec 13
2016	Apr 10	Nov 13	Mar 5	Nov 22
2015	Mar 29	Nov 24	Mar 29	none
2014	Mar 27	Nov 3	Mar 27	Nov 15
2013	Mar 29	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 14
2012	Mar 11	Nov 25	Mar 6	Nov 25
2011	Mar 29	Nov 18	Mar 2	Dec 29
2010	Mar 9	Nov 28	Feb 20	Dec 7
2009	Mar 25	Dec 1	Mar 25	Dec 12
2008	Mar 18	Oct 30	Feb 28	Nov 22
2007	Apr 9	Nov 17	Apr 8	Dec 18
2006	Apr 10	Oct 24	Mar 23	Nov 4
2005	Apr 17	Oct 30	Mar 19	Nov 18
2004	Apr 6	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 10
2003	Mar 31	Nov 30	Mar 4	Dec 3
2002	Apr 7	Nov 28	Mar 23	Nov 28
2001	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 28	Dec 22
2000	Mar 18	Nov 16	Feb 12	Nov 22
1999	Mar 16	Nov 17	Mar 9	Dec 1
1998	Mar 13	Dec 18	Mar 13	Dec 31
1997	Apr 10	Nov 17	Feb 10	Nov 17
1996	Apr 8	Nov 4	Mar 13	Nov 13
1995	Mar 11	Nov 9	Mar 10	Nov 9
1994	no data	Dec 12	no data	Dec 20
1993	Mar 20	Nov 21	Mar 19	Dec 12
1992	no data	Nov 15	no data	Nov 16
1991	Mar 12	Nov 6	Mar 12	Nov 6
1990	Mar 8	Nov 19	Feb 27	Dec 25
1989	Apr 12	Nov 22	Mar 11	Nov 24
1988	Mar 22	Dec 5	Mar 22	Dec 5
1987	Mar 20	Oct 23	Mar 11	Nov 22
1986	Apr 10	Nov 14	Apr 10	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Dec 3	Apr 10	Dec 3
1984	Mar 15	Nov 15	Mar 10	Nov 18
1983	Mar 26	Nov 14	Feb 27	Dec 9
1982	Apr 8	Nov 7	Mar 29	Dec 10
1981	Mar 22	Oct 20	Mar 20	Nov 23
1980	Mar 14	Nov 19	Mar 4	Dec 18
1979	Mar 17	Nov 30	Mar 17	Nov 30
1978	Mar 8	Dec 1	Mar 7	Dec 11
1977	Mar 8	Nov 13	Feb 23	Nov 27
1976	Mar 18	Oct 29	Mar 18	Nov 9
1975	Apr 6	Nov 15	Mar 9	Dec 19
1974	Mar 26	Nov 16	Feb 27	Nov 27
1973	Mar 1	Nov 7	Mar 1	Dec 12
1972	Apr 9	Nov 23	Mar 11	Nov 24
1971	Apr 7	Nov 8	Mar 25	Nov 23
1970	Mar 30	Nov 24	Mar 17	Nov 24
1969	Mar 28	Nov 15	Mar 15	Dec 2
1968	Mar 15	Nov 21	Mar 14	Dec 8
1967	Mar 25	Nov 6	Mar 20	Nov 8
1966	Mar 29	Oct 31	Mar 10	Dec 4
1965	Apr 1	Oct 30	Mar 21	Nov 30
1964	Mar 31	Nov 22	Mar 31	Nov 23
1963	Mar 23	Nov 15	Feb 28	Dec 15
1962	Mar 9	Oct 27	Mar 4	Dec 10
1961	Mar 19	Nov 22	Mar 18	Nov 29
1960	Mar 25	Oct 26	Mar 23	Dec 1
1959	Mar 29	Nov 18	Mar 19	Nov 18
1958	Mar 15	Nov 30	Feb 21	Nov 30
1957	no data	Oct 28	no data	Nov 11
1956	Mar 25	no data	Mar 25	no data
1955	Mar 28	Nov 6	Mar 27	Nov 29
1954	Mar 22	Nov 1	Mar 7	Nov 1
1953	Apr 22	Nov 6	Mar 9	Nov 7
1952	Mar 27	Oct 21	Mar 18	Oct 21
1951	Mar 27	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 18

"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.