Highlands, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314055, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,850 ft, 35.056, -83.198. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 28	Oct 17
Earliest	Mar 31 (1991)	Sep 23 (1983)
Latest	May 28 (1961)	Nov 10 (1973)
Trend	1.0 days later per decade	0.9 days earlier per decade
Years with data	70	69

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

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 15	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 3
2024	Apr 27	Oct 16	Apr 7	Oct 17
2023	May 5	Oct 23	Apr 12	Nov 1
2022	Apr 21	Oct 18	Apr 20	Oct 18
2021	Apr 26	Oct 19	Apr 23	Nov 6
2020	May 13	Oct 17	May 13	Nov 2
2019	Apr 22	Oct 18	Apr 2	Nov 1
2018	May 1	Oct 21	Apr 21	Oct 22
2017	Apr 9	Oct 17	Apr 7	Oct 30
2016	Apr 17	Oct 12	Apr 10	Nov 20
2015	Apr 29	Oct 17	Apr 6	Oct 18
2014	May 17	Oct 5	Apr 17	Nov 1
2013	May 8	Oct 20	Apr 7	Oct 24
2012	Apr 24	Sep 24	Apr 13	Oct 30
2011	May 6	Oct 20	May 6	Oct 22
2010	Apr 29	Oct 16	Mar 23	Nov 6
2009	Apr 17	Oct 18	Apr 8	Oct 19
2008	Apr 30	Oct 19	Apr 16	Oct 28
2007	May 19	Oct 30	Apr 15	Oct 30
2006	Apr 10	Oct 13	Apr 9	Oct 15
2005	May 4	Oct 23	Apr 24	Oct 28
2004	May 4	Nov 5	Apr 14	Nov 9
2002	May 22	Oct 17	Apr 5	Nov 2
2001	Apr 26	Sep 26	Apr 19	Oct 17
2000	Apr 27	Sep 27	Apr 9	Oct 9
1999	Apr 18	Sep 23	Mar 30	Oct 24
1998	Apr 14	Oct 23	Apr 12	Oct 23
1997	May 11	Oct 23	Apr 19	Oct 23
1996	May 2	Oct 5	May 1	Oct 11
1995	May 4	Oct 17	Apr 4	Nov 4
1994	May 20	Oct 18	Apr 9	Oct 27
1993	May 21	Oct 1	Apr 27	Oct 28
1992	May 9	Oct 1	Apr 30	Oct 20
1991	Mar 31	Oct 7	Mar 30	Oct 8
1990	Apr 19	Oct 19	Apr 13	Oct 26
1989	May 13	Oct 9	Apr 14	Oct 20
1988	May 26	Oct 6	Apr 21	Oct 8
1987	Apr 29	Oct 2	Apr 11	Oct 4
1986	May 3	Oct 16	Apr 23	Nov 13
1985	no data	Sep 28	no data	Nov 7
1984	May 17	Oct 2	Apr 19	Nov 7
1983	Apr 27	Sep 23	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	May 1	Oct 17	Apr 24	Oct 17
1981	May 3	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 3
1980	May 9	Oct 6	Apr 17	Oct 6
1979	no data	Oct 6	no data	Oct 15
1978	May 17	Oct 8	Apr 28	Oct 8
1976	May 4	Oct 18	Mar 18	Oct 28
1974	Apr 25	no data	Apr 10	no data
1973	May 18	Nov 10	Apr 11	Nov 10
1972	Apr 26	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	May 4	Nov 5	Apr 7	Nov 8
1970	Apr 15	Nov 4	Apr 3	Nov 5
1969	Apr 20	Oct 24	Mar 31	Oct 30
1968	Apr 16	Oct 5	Mar 24	Nov 12
1967	Apr 28	Sep 30	Apr 28	Oct 29
1966	Apr 11	Oct 2	Apr 10	Nov 2
1965	Apr 3	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 11	Apr 9	Nov 22
1963	May 2	Oct 30	Mar 22	Nov 2
1962	Apr 21	Oct 24	Apr 21	Oct 24
1961	May 28	Oct 15	Apr 11	Oct 15
1960	May 13	Nov 4	Apr 11	Nov 6
1959	Apr 15	no data	Apr 14	no data
1958	Apr 12	Nov 8	Apr 8	Nov 29
1957	Apr 10	Oct 27	Apr 9	Oct 27
1956	Apr 21	no data	Apr 21	no data
1955	Apr 8	Oct 16	Mar 30	Nov 4
1954	May 10	Oct 16	Mar 22	Oct 17
1953	Apr 21	Nov 6	Apr 21	Nov 7
1952	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 7	Oct 21
1951	Apr 18	Nov 3	Apr 17	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.