Fletcher 3 W, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00313106, 1960 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,070 ft, 35.427, -82.557. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 27	Oct 17
Earliest	Apr 1 (1991)	Sep 23 (1976)
Latest	May 28 (1961)	Nov 5 (2021)
Trend	2.6 days earlier per decade	1.6 days later per decade
Years with data	65	66

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.

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	Apr 17	Oct 24	Mar 28	Nov 11
2024	Apr 24	Oct 18	Apr 8	Nov 24
2023	May 4	Oct 9	Apr 11	Nov 1
2022	Apr 21	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 20
2021	Apr 24	Nov 5	Apr 23	Nov 14
2020	no data	Oct 18	no data	Nov 3
2019	Apr 4	Oct 24	Apr 3	Nov 2
2018	May 1	Oct 22	Mar 23	Nov 11
2017	Apr 10	Oct 26	Mar 24	Nov 17
2016	Apr 17	Oct 23	Apr 10	Nov 16
2015	Apr 6	Oct 18	Apr 5	Oct 19
2014	Apr 18	Oct 5	Apr 17	Nov 3
2013	Apr 23	Oct 25	Mar 30	Oct 26
2012	Apr 13	Nov 2	Mar 12	Nov 9
2011	Apr 6	Oct 3	Apr 6	Oct 30
2010	Apr 19	Oct 6	Mar 9	Nov 6
2009	Apr 17	Oct 19	Apr 8	Dec 6
2008	Apr 30	Oct 19	Apr 16	Oct 30
2007	Apr 11	Oct 29	Apr 11	Oct 30
2006	Apr 10	Oct 14	Mar 27	Oct 15
2005	Apr 28	Oct 24	Apr 24	Oct 27
2004	May 4	Oct 17	Mar 24	Nov 6
2003	Apr 24	Sep 30	Apr 14	Oct 3
2002	May 23	Oct 18	Apr 7	Nov 2
2001	Apr 27	Oct 8	Apr 19	Oct 8
2000	Apr 27	Oct 10	Mar 18	Oct 13
1999	Apr 19	Oct 22	Mar 28	Oct 25
1998	Apr 25	Oct 15	Apr 13	Oct 23
1997	May 19	Oct 23	Apr 15	Oct 23
1996	May 1	Oct 12	Apr 11	Oct 20
1995	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 3	Oct 18
1994	Apr 10	Oct 27	Apr 9	Oct 27
1993	Apr 28	Oct 1	Apr 23	Oct 24
1992	Apr 29	Oct 20	Apr 6	Oct 20
1991	Apr 1	Oct 8	Mar 31	Oct 8
1990	Apr 19	Oct 20	Apr 13	Oct 27
1989	May 13	Oct 9	May 8	Oct 21
1988	Apr 20	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 8
1987	Apr 29	Oct 2	Apr 10	Oct 9
1986	May 4	Oct 18	May 4	Nov 14
1985	Apr 11	Oct 7	Apr 10	Nov 9
1984	Apr 19	Oct 3	Apr 19	Nov 7
1983	Apr 22	Oct 28	Apr 21	Oct 28
1982	May 1	Oct 17	Apr 24	Oct 17
1981	May 3	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 14
1980	May 10	Oct 7	Apr 17	Nov 6
1979	Apr 30	Oct 15	Apr 6	Oct 15
1978	May 3	Oct 8	Mar 19	Oct 18
1977	May 11	Oct 18	Mar 26	Oct 18
1976	May 5	Sep 23	Apr 13	Oct 19
1975	Apr 22	Oct 3	Apr 13	Oct 31
1974	Apr 26	Oct 3	Apr 10	Oct 3
1973	May 18	Oct 18	Apr 15	Nov 2
1972	Apr 28	Oct 20	Apr 27	Oct 20
1971	May 5	Nov 5	May 4	Nov 5
1970	May 7	Oct 5	Apr 8	Nov 17
1969	May 13	Oct 18	Apr 1	Oct 18
1968	Apr 27	Oct 5	Apr 27	Oct 5
1967	Apr 29	Sep 30	Apr 29	Oct 20
1966	May 11	Oct 7	Apr 12	Oct 21
1965	Apr 3	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 26
1964	Apr 16	Oct 8	Apr 11	Oct 11
1963	May 3	Sep 24	Apr 16	Oct 17
1962	Apr 22	Oct 20	Apr 22	Oct 24
1961	May 28	Oct 16	Apr 17	Oct 27
1960	May 14	Oct 22	Apr 19	Nov 5

"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.