Frost history / Elizabethtown, NC
Elizabethtown, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00312732, 1957 to 2018, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 120 ft, 34.627, -78.611. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 31 | Oct 30 |
| Earliest | Mar 8 (2010) | Oct 4 (1974) |
| Latest | May 2 (1963) | Nov 26 (1978) |
| Trend | 1.3 days earlier per decade | 1.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 40 | 37 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 15.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 16 | no data |
| 2016 | Apr 10 | Nov 21 | Feb 28 | Nov 21 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Nov 15 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 |
| 2013 | Mar 29 | Oct 26 | Mar 29 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 11 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2011 | Mar 29 | Oct 30 | Mar 2 | Nov 18 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Nov 8 | Mar 8 | Dec 2 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Nov 22 | Mar 6 | Nov 28 |
| 2008 | Apr 16 | Oct 29 | Mar 1 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Oct 25 | Mar 19 | Nov 4 |
| 2005 | Mar 16 | no data | Mar 10 | no data |
| 1985 | Apr 11 | Nov 10 | Apr 10 | Dec 4 |
| 1984 | Mar 12 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 1983 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 1982 | Apr 8 | Oct 18 | Mar 29 | Nov 7 |
| 1981 | Mar 25 | Oct 20 | Mar 21 | Nov 8 |
| 1980 | Apr 17 | Nov 13 | Mar 4 | Nov 20 |
| 1979 | Mar 17 | Oct 27 | Mar 17 | Nov 15 |
| 1978 | Mar 18 | Nov 26 | Mar 6 | Dec 22 |
| 1977 | Apr 10 | Nov 12 | Mar 8 | Nov 13 |
| 1976 | Apr 13 | Oct 22 | Apr 10 | Oct 29 |
| 1975 | Mar 10 | Nov 1 | Mar 4 | Nov 15 |
| 1974 | Apr 7 | Oct 4 | Mar 15 | Nov 16 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | Nov 7 | Mar 1 | Nov 10 |
| 1972 | Apr 10 | Oct 20 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 |
| 1971 | Mar 31 | Nov 8 | Mar 27 | Nov 9 |
| 1970 | Mar 17 | Oct 18 | Mar 17 | Nov 24 |
| 1969 | Apr 1 | Oct 24 | Mar 28 | Nov 16 |
| 1968 | Mar 26 | Oct 27 | Mar 14 | Nov 14 |
| 1967 | Mar 24 | Oct 29 | Mar 19 | Nov 6 |
| 1966 | Apr 11 | Nov 4 | Mar 29 | Nov 4 |
| 1965 | Mar 22 | Oct 26 | Mar 22 | Oct 30 |
| 1964 | Mar 31 | Nov 22 | Mar 31 | Nov 23 |
| 1963 | May 2 | Oct 31 | Feb 28 | Nov 4 |
| 1962 | Apr 5 | Oct 25 | Mar 19 | Oct 26 |
| 1961 | Apr 20 | Oct 28 | Mar 11 | Nov 22 |
| 1960 | Apr 11 | Oct 25 | Mar 22 | Nov 8 |
| 1959 | Mar 25 | Nov 10 | Feb 22 | Nov 18 |
| 1958 | Apr 2 | Nov 20 | Feb 23 | Dec 1 |
| 1957 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 10 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.