Gastonia, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00313356, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 700 ft, 35.267, -81.144. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 31	Nov 4
Earliest	Mar 7 (2012)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	May 11 (1977)	Dec 2 (1978)
Trend	1.6 days earlier per decade	1.3 days later per decade
Years with data	70	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 18 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.

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	Mar 7	Nov 11	Mar 3	Nov 11
2024	Mar 20	Nov 22	Feb 26	Nov 30
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 14	Nov 17
2021	Apr 22	Nov 14	Apr 3	Nov 24
2020	Mar 9	Nov 3	Mar 2	Dec 2
2019	Mar 7	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Apr 17	Nov 11	Mar 16	Nov 28
2017	Mar 18	Oct 30	Mar 18	Nov 20
2016	Apr 10	Nov 21	Feb 28	Nov 22
2015	Mar 30	Nov 15	Mar 30	Nov 16
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 15	Nov 4
2013	Mar 30	Oct 25	Mar 30	Nov 10
2012	Mar 7	Nov 8	Mar 7	Nov 26
2011	Mar 30	Oct 31	Mar 30	Nov 12
2010	Mar 8	Nov 8	Mar 8	Nov 28
2009	Apr 9	Nov 28	Mar 6	Dec 7
2008	no data	Oct 29	no data	Nov 18
2007	Mar 19	no data	Mar 19	no data
2006	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 27	Dec 5
2005	Mar 20	Nov 18	Mar 18	Nov 18
2004	Mar 24	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 27
2003	Mar 31	Nov 14	Feb 17	Nov 29
2002	Mar 25	Nov 18	Mar 25	Nov 28
2001	Mar 29	Oct 28	Mar 10	Dec 21
2000	no data	Nov 15	no data	Nov 21
1999	Mar 16	no data	Mar 12	no data
1998	Mar 24	Nov 7	Mar 13	Dec 16
1997	Apr 19	Nov 17	Feb 17	Nov 17
1996	Mar 24	Nov 4	Mar 23	Nov 11
1994	Mar 19	no data	Mar 19	no data
1992	Apr 3	Nov 9	Mar 16	Dec 6
1991	Mar 8	Nov 4	Feb 17	Nov 5
1990	Apr 8	no data	Feb 26	no data
1989	May 8	Nov 3	Mar 8	Nov 17
1988	Apr 12	Oct 13	Mar 16	Nov 29
1987	Apr 1	Oct 15	Apr 1	Oct 22
1986	Apr 24	Nov 14	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Nov 9	Apr 10	Dec 3
1984	Apr 2	Nov 7	Mar 23	Nov 7
1983	Apr 21	Nov 5	Apr 21	Nov 14
1982	Apr 10	Nov 5	Apr 7	Nov 6
1981	Apr 7	Oct 20	Mar 21	Nov 14
1980	Mar 23	Nov 6	Mar 15	Nov 19
1979	Mar 27	Oct 27	Mar 26	Nov 15
1978	Apr 22	Dec 2	Mar 18	Dec 10
1977	May 11	Oct 18	Mar 8	Nov 12
1976	Apr 13	Oct 18	Mar 18	Oct 29
1975	Apr 13	Oct 31	Mar 9	Nov 15
1974	Apr 10	Oct 3	Mar 18	Oct 22
1973	Apr 14	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 10
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 10	Oct 20
1971	Apr 15	Nov 5	Mar 31	Nov 8
1970	Apr 8	Oct 18	Mar 17	Nov 16
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Mar 28	Oct 24
1968	Apr 12	Oct 5	Mar 25	Oct 30
1967	Apr 29	Oct 20	Mar 23	Oct 29
1966	May 11	Nov 3	Apr 11	Nov 3
1965	Mar 22	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 30
1964	no data	Nov 22	no data	Nov 22
1963	Mar 23	no data	Mar 23	no data
1962	Apr 16	Oct 26	Mar 8	Oct 27
1961	Mar 19	Nov 9	Feb 11	Nov 22
1960	Apr 11	Nov 8	Mar 23	Nov 8
1959	Mar 19	Nov 9	Mar 19	Nov 18
1958	Mar 23	Nov 29	Mar 23	Dec 1
1957	Mar 21	Oct 28	Mar 10	Nov 10
1956	Apr 20	no data	Mar 25	no data
1955	Mar 30	Nov 4	Mar 28	Nov 20
1954	Mar 22	Nov 1	Mar 16	Nov 2
1953	Mar 27	Nov 7	Feb 18	Nov 7
1952	Mar 17	Oct 21	Mar 8	Dec 1
1951	Mar 25	Nov 4	Feb 11	Nov 9

"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.