Hamlet, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00313784, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 350 ft, 34.886, -79.692. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 10	Oct 27
Earliest	Mar 8 (2010)	Sep 25 (1992)
Latest	May 8 (1989)	Nov 22 (2024)
Trend	0.7 days earlier per decade	1.3 days later per decade
Years with data	72	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.

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 13	no data	Mar 7	no data
2024	Mar 25	Nov 22	Feb 25	Nov 22
2023	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 3
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 28	Nov 18
2021	Apr 22	Nov 14	Apr 3	Nov 23
2020	Mar 9	Nov 3	Mar 8	Nov 19
2019	Apr 3	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 9
2018	Apr 17	Nov 11	Mar 15	Dec 6
2017	Mar 23	Oct 30	Mar 17	Nov 20
2016	Apr 10	Nov 8	Apr 10	Nov 20
2015	Mar 29	Oct 19	Mar 29	Nov 23
2014	Apr 16	Nov 3	Mar 27	Nov 3
2013	Mar 29	Oct 26	Mar 29	Oct 26
2012	Apr 12	Nov 1	Mar 6	Nov 8
2011	Apr 3	Oct 30	Mar 12	Nov 12
2010	Mar 8	Oct 23	Mar 8	Oct 23
2009	Apr 8	Nov 7	Mar 6	Nov 12
2008	Apr 16	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 31
2007	Apr 10	Oct 13	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 27	Oct 24
2005	Apr 25	Oct 29	Mar 9	Nov 18
2004	Apr 6	Nov 10	Apr 5	Nov 15
2003	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 14
2002	Apr 7	Nov 8	Mar 23	Nov 28
2001	Apr 19	Oct 28	Mar 28	Oct 30
2000	Mar 14	Oct 10	Mar 13	Nov 21
1999	Apr 29	Oct 23	Mar 16	Nov 4
1998	Apr 12	Nov 1	Mar 14	Nov 7
1997	Apr 19	Oct 24	Apr 10	Nov 16
1996	Apr 11	Nov 2	Apr 10	Nov 3
1995	Apr 3	Nov 5	Mar 26	Nov 9
1994	Mar 30	Oct 28	Mar 17	Nov 23
1993	Apr 28	Nov 1	Mar 19	Nov 2
1992	May 7	Sep 25	May 7	Oct 20
1991	Mar 20	Oct 30	Mar 12	Nov 3
1990	Apr 12	Oct 30	Mar 21	Nov 15
1989	May 8	Oct 21	May 8	Oct 21
1988	Apr 29	Oct 13	Mar 22	Oct 14
1987	Apr 5	Oct 9	Apr 1	Oct 22
1986	Apr 24	Oct 20	Apr 24	Nov 22
1984	Mar 31	Nov 7	Mar 12	Nov 8
1983	Apr 22	Oct 28	Apr 21	Nov 14
1982	Apr 24	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 7
1981	Mar 29	no data	Mar 25	no data
1980	Apr 16	Oct 26	Mar 15	Nov 12
1979	Apr 6	Oct 15	Mar 17	Nov 15
1978	Mar 28	Oct 17	Mar 18	Dec 2
1977	Apr 6	Oct 18	Mar 24	Nov 12
1976	Apr 13	Oct 22	Apr 10	Oct 28
1975	Apr 5	Nov 1	Mar 9	Nov 15
1974	Apr 11	Oct 3	Apr 10	Oct 21
1973	Apr 14	Oct 18	Mar 24	Nov 6
1972	Apr 10	no data	Apr 10	no data
1971	Apr 23	Nov 8	Mar 31	Nov 8
1970	Apr 8	Oct 18	Mar 17	Nov 17
1969	Apr 25	Oct 24	Apr 1	Nov 6
1968	Mar 25	Oct 27	Mar 24	Nov 12
1967	Apr 29	Oct 19	Mar 19	Oct 20
1966	Apr 7	Nov 3	Mar 29	Nov 4
1965	Apr 3	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 12	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	May 2	Oct 31	Mar 23	Nov 4
1962	Apr 17	Oct 24	Apr 17	Oct 26
1961	Apr 8	Oct 27	Mar 11	Oct 27
1960	Apr 11	Oct 25	Apr 11	Nov 8
1959	Mar 29	Oct 26	Mar 19	Nov 10
1958	no data	Oct 30	no data	Nov 30
1957	Apr 9	Oct 21	Mar 21	Oct 29
1956	Apr 9	Oct 12	Mar 25	Nov 10
1955	Mar 31	Oct 31	Mar 28	Oct 31
1954	Mar 22	Oct 31	Mar 22	Nov 3
1953	Apr 21	Nov 7	Mar 10	Nov 7
1952	Mar 29	Oct 22	Mar 17	Oct 30
1951	Mar 27	Nov 4	Mar 15	Nov 8

"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.