Frost history / Enka, NC
Enka, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00312837, 1951 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,050 ft, 35.541, -82.654. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 17 | Oct 22 |
| Earliest | Mar 22 (1958) | Sep 30 (1967) |
| Latest | May 13 (1960) | Nov 9 (1956) |
| Trend | 0.8 days earlier per decade | 0.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 35 | 39 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 6 | Apr 4 | Nov 7 |
| 2020 | May 11 | Oct 17 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 |
| 2019 | Apr 4 | Oct 24 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 |
| 2018 | Apr 17 | Oct 22 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Apr 10 | Oct 26 | Mar 21 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Oct 23 | Apr 10 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Apr 5 | Nov 15 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Oct 5 | Apr 16 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | Apr 22 | Oct 24 | Apr 2 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 2010 | Mar 31 | Oct 25 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 13 | Oct 18 | Apr 7 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 13 | no data | Oct 24 |
| 2005 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 | Mar 20 | Oct 28 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 8 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 7 |
| 1973 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 1972 | Apr 27 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1971 | May 4 | Nov 4 | Apr 11 | Nov 5 |
| 1970 | Apr 8 | Oct 17 | Apr 8 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Apr 1 | Oct 18 | Apr 1 | Oct 30 |
| 1968 | May 7 | Oct 5 | Mar 26 | Oct 27 |
| 1967 | Apr 29 | Sep 30 | Mar 23 | Oct 29 |
| 1966 | Apr 17 | Oct 21 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | Apr 3 | Oct 25 | Mar 22 | Oct 29 |
| 1964 | Apr 11 | Oct 11 | Apr 10 | Nov 21 |
| 1963 | May 2 | Oct 17 | Mar 23 | Oct 31 |
| 1962 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 1961 | Apr 20 | Oct 26 | Apr 5 | Nov 9 |
| 1960 | May 13 | Oct 25 | Apr 11 | Nov 4 |
| 1959 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 | Mar 23 | Nov 7 |
| 1958 | Mar 22 | Oct 13 | Mar 17 | Oct 31 |
| 1957 | Apr 15 | Oct 21 | Apr 15 | Oct 28 |
| 1956 | Apr 22 | Nov 9 | Apr 21 | Nov 9 |
| 1955 | Apr 1 | Oct 16 | Mar 31 | Oct 26 |
| 1954 | May 11 | Oct 8 | Mar 22 | Oct 20 |
| 1953 | Apr 22 | Oct 31 | Apr 21 | Nov 7 |
| 1952 | Apr 18 | Oct 4 | Mar 30 | Oct 21 |
| 1951 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 |
"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.