Frost history / Flat Springs 1E, NC
Flat Springs 1E, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00313072, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,330 ft, 36.252, -81.914. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 21 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Apr 3 (2019) | Oct 5 (2014) |
| Latest | May 15 (2016) | Nov 12 (2016) |
| Trend | 0.9 days earlier per decade | 3.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 17 | 18 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.
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 13 | Nov 10 | Apr 10 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 23 | Oct 16 | Apr 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2023 | Apr 25 | Nov 1 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 18 | Apr 20 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 3 | Apr 23 | Nov 5 |
| 2020 | May 12 | Oct 31 | Mar 8 | Nov 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 21 | Oct 21 | Apr 18 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Apr 9 | Oct 26 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Nov 12 | Apr 11 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Oct 5 | Apr 17 | Nov 1 |
| 2013 | Apr 21 | Oct 24 | Mar 30 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 24 | Oct 29 | Apr 12 | Oct 30 |
| 2011 | May 5 | Oct 29 | Apr 2 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Apr 29 | Nov 6 | Mar 27 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 22 | no data | Oct 28 |
"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.