Frost history / Elkin, NC
Elkin, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00312740, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 910 ft, 36.255, -80.864. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 15 | Oct 25 |
| Earliest | Apr 4 (2019) | Oct 17 (2015) |
| Latest | May 1 (2018) | Nov 6 (2016) |
| Trend | 1.3 days earlier per decade | 1.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.
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 | Apr 18 | Oct 24 | Apr 14 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Apr 8 | Oct 17 | Mar 25 | Nov 22 |
| 2023 | Apr 12 | Nov 2 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 19 | Mar 29 | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | Nov 5 | Apr 22 | Nov 5 |
| 2020 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 2019 | Apr 4 | Oct 25 | Apr 4 | Nov 3 |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Apr 10 | Oct 30 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 | Apr 11 | Nov 11 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 |
| 2014 | Apr 21 | Oct 25 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | Apr 26 | no data | Apr 4 | no data |
| 2012 | Apr 25 | Nov 2 | Apr 13 | Nov 3 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | Oct 22 | Mar 13 | Oct 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.