Last Frost Day

Frost history / Garner, NC

Garner, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00313238, 2011 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 330 ft, 35.671, -78.661. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 4Oct 31
EarliestMar 9 (2020)Oct 18 (2015)
LatestApr 16 (2014)Nov 19 (2020)
Trend2.0 days earlier per decade16.4 days later per decade
Years with data1111

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 3020202011: Apr 42012: Mar 122013: Mar 302014: Apr 162015: Mar 302016: Apr 112017: Mar 232018: Apr 72019: Apr 42020: Mar 92021: Apr 4

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202011: Oct 292012: Nov 52013: Oct 252014: Oct 312015: Oct 182016: Nov 122017: Oct 292018: Oct 252019: Nov 92020: Nov 192021: Nov 14

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2021Apr 4Nov 14Apr 4Nov 20
2020Mar 9Nov 19Mar 9Nov 19
2019Apr 4Nov 9Mar 8Nov 9
2018Apr 7Oct 25Mar 14Nov 22
2017Mar 23Oct 29Mar 18Nov 10
2016Apr 11Nov 12Apr 7Nov 12
2015Mar 30Oct 18Mar 30Nov 23
2014Apr 16Oct 31Mar 28Oct 31
2013Mar 30Oct 25Mar 30Nov 12
2012Mar 12Nov 5Mar 7Nov 22
2011Apr 4Oct 29Mar 30Nov 12

"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.