Franklin, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00313228, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,125 ft, 35.180, -83.393. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 28	Oct 15
Earliest	Apr 2 (1991)	Sep 24 (1963)
Latest	May 31 (1984)	Nov 13 (1986)
Trend	2.5 days earlier per decade	1.1 days later per decade
Years with data	66	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.

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 14	Oct 24	Mar 19	Nov 11
2024	Apr 23	Oct 17	Mar 25	Oct 17
2023	Apr 25	Oct 9	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Apr 20	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 20
2021	Apr 23	Oct 27	Apr 22	Nov 7
2020	May 7	Oct 18	Apr 16	Nov 3
2019	Apr 4	Oct 18	Apr 3	Nov 1
2018	Apr 30	Oct 22	Apr 20	Nov 11
2017	Apr 9	Oct 19	Mar 18	Oct 26
2016	Apr 17	Oct 23	Apr 10	Oct 23
2015	Apr 6	Oct 17	Apr 6	Oct 18
2014	Apr 16	Oct 5	Apr 16	Nov 1
2013	Apr 27	Oct 24	Mar 31	Oct 26
2012	Apr 14	Nov 1	Apr 13	Nov 8
2011	no data	Oct 3	no data	Oct 30
2010	no data	Oct 6	no data	Oct 30
2005	no data	Oct 17	no data	Oct 26
2002	Apr 6	no data	Apr 6	no data
2001	Apr 25	Oct 7	Apr 19	Oct 17
2000	Apr 27	Oct 9	Apr 9	Oct 9
1999	Apr 18	Oct 23	Mar 27	Oct 24
1998	Apr 12	Oct 22	Apr 5	Oct 22
1997	May 10	Oct 22	Apr 10	Oct 22
1996	May 1	Oct 20	Apr 11	Oct 20
1995	Apr 25	Oct 16	Apr 2	Oct 22
1994	Apr 9	Oct 26	Apr 9	Oct 26
1993	Apr 28	Oct 1	Apr 23	Oct 29
1992	Apr 29	Oct 19	Apr 29	Oct 20
1991	Apr 2	Oct 7	Apr 1	Oct 7
1990	Apr 19	Oct 19	Apr 13	Oct 27
1989	May 13	Oct 9	May 8	Oct 21
1988	May 1	Oct 8	Apr 20	Oct 13
1987	Apr 29	Oct 4	Apr 10	Oct 9
1986	May 4	Nov 13	Apr 24	Nov 13
1985	Apr 11	Oct 6	Apr 11	Nov 8
1984	May 31	Oct 2	Apr 19	Nov 7
1983	May 6	Sep 24	Apr 21	Oct 28
1982	May 1	Oct 17	Apr 24	Oct 26
1981	May 3	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 3
1980	May 1	Oct 13	Apr 17	Oct 13
1979	May 26	Oct 14	Apr 29	Oct 14
1978	Apr 28	Oct 8	Apr 22	Oct 8
1977	May 11	Oct 13	Apr 9	Oct 15
1976	May 19	Oct 15	Apr 27	Oct 19
1975	Apr 22	Oct 3	Apr 16	Oct 31
1974	Apr 26	Oct 1	Apr 25	Oct 3
1973	May 18	Oct 18	May 18	Oct 18
1972	Apr 27	Oct 20	Apr 27	Oct 20
1971	May 4	no data	May 4	no data
1970	May 7	Oct 4	Apr 11	Oct 17
1969	May 13	Oct 18	Apr 25	Oct 18
1968	May 7	Oct 5	Apr 26	Oct 5
1967	Apr 29	Sep 30	Apr 29	Sep 30
1966	May 11	Oct 2	Apr 11	Nov 3
1965	Apr 30	Oct 25	Apr 3	Oct 25
1964	Apr 16	Oct 6	Apr 11	Oct 7
1963	May 3	Sep 24	May 2	Oct 17
1962	Apr 22	Oct 24	Apr 22	Oct 25
1961	May 28	Oct 15	May 3	Oct 15
1960	May 14	Oct 25	Apr 19	Oct 25
1959	Apr 24	Oct 26	Apr 15	Nov 3
1958	Apr 23	Oct 8	Apr 13	Oct 29
1957	May 7	Oct 15	Apr 15	Oct 20
1956	Apr 22	Oct 8	Apr 21	Nov 10
1955	Apr 9	Oct 15	Apr 9	Oct 25
1954	May 22	Oct 17	Mar 22	Oct 17
1953	Apr 28	Oct 7	Apr 22	Oct 31
1952	May 14	Oct 4	Apr 17	Oct 21
1951	Apr 18	Oct 11	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.