High Pt, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314063, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 900 ft, 35.968, -79.971. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 6	Nov 3
Earliest	Mar 7 (2025)	Oct 1 (1993)
Latest	Apr 30 (1999)	Dec 3 (1985)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.5 days later per decade
Years with data	73	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 22 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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	Apr 7	Nov 22	Feb 28	Nov 30
2023	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 2
2022	Apr 20	Oct 19	Apr 20	Nov 17
2021	Apr 3	Nov 14	Apr 3	Nov 24
2020	Mar 10	Nov 18	Mar 10	Dec 2
2019	Apr 1	no data	Mar 7	no data
2018	Apr 8	Nov 11	Mar 15	Nov 11
2017	Apr 8	Nov 11	Mar 17	Nov 11
2016	Apr 10	Oct 26	Feb 28	Oct 26
2015	Mar 29	Nov 15	Mar 29	Nov 24
2014	Apr 16	Nov 3	Mar 27	Nov 15
2013	Mar 29	Oct 26	Mar 22	Nov 13
2012	Apr 25	Nov 7	Mar 11	Nov 25
2011	Mar 29	Nov 6	Mar 7	Nov 6
2010	Mar 10	Nov 21	Mar 10	Nov 28
2009	Mar 24	Dec 1	Mar 4	Dec 6
2008	no data	Oct 22	no data	Oct 22
2007	Apr 9	Oct 15	Mar 9	Nov 8
2006	Apr 11	Oct 29	Mar 27	Nov 3
2005	Mar 22	Nov 18	Mar 10	Nov 18
2004	Apr 6	Nov 9	Mar 23	Nov 15
2003	no data	Nov 10	no data	Nov 30
2002	Apr 2	Nov 18	Apr 2	Nov 28
2001	Apr 19	Oct 7	Mar 27	Oct 7
2000	Mar 19	Oct 9	Mar 19	Nov 11
1999	Apr 30	Oct 25	Mar 16	Nov 4
1998	Apr 6	Nov 6	Mar 23	Nov 7
1997	Apr 18	Oct 23	Apr 10	Nov 5
1996	Apr 10	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 4
1995	Apr 5	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 5
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Mar 17	Nov 12
1993	Apr 8	Oct 1	Apr 3	Nov 8
1992	Apr 29	Oct 14	Apr 6	Oct 20
1991	Mar 31	Nov 3	Mar 12	Nov 5
1990	Apr 19	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 19
1989	Apr 12	Nov 4	Apr 12	Nov 17
1988	Apr 20	Oct 13	Mar 22	Oct 14
1987	Apr 4	Oct 22	Apr 1	Nov 12
1986	Apr 24	Nov 14	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Dec 3	Apr 10	Dec 3
1984	Apr 11	Nov 7	Mar 12	Nov 17
1983	Apr 21	Nov 5	Apr 19	Nov 13
1982	Apr 10	Nov 5	Apr 7	Nov 6
1981	Mar 26	Nov 8	Mar 20	Nov 22
1980	Mar 19	Nov 12	Mar 4	Nov 19
1979	Apr 7	Oct 27	Mar 16	Nov 15
1978	Mar 18	Dec 2	Mar 18	Dec 10
1977	Apr 7	Nov 13	Mar 2	Nov 13
1976	Mar 23	Oct 19	Feb 9	Oct 29
1975	Apr 13	Nov 15	Mar 9	Nov 15
1974	Mar 26	Oct 4	Mar 26	Nov 26
1973	Apr 14	Nov 7	Feb 22	Nov 10
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	Mar 31	Nov 8	Mar 27	Nov 8
1970	Mar 31	Nov 16	Mar 17	Nov 17
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Mar 31	Oct 24
1968	Mar 25	Nov 10	Mar 24	Nov 21
1967	Mar 23	Oct 29	Mar 23	Nov 6
1966	Apr 11	Nov 4	Mar 29	Nov 4
1965	Apr 3	Oct 25	Mar 22	Nov 30
1964	Apr 1	Oct 12	Apr 1	Nov 22
1963	Mar 23	Nov 3	Mar 23	Nov 30
1962	Apr 16	Oct 25	Apr 16	Oct 27
1961	Mar 22	Oct 28	Mar 18	Nov 22
1960	Apr 11	Oct 22	Mar 26	Nov 8
1959	Apr 14	Oct 26	Mar 29	Nov 19
1958	Mar 23	Oct 31	Mar 21	Nov 8
1957	Apr 15	Oct 14	Mar 10	Oct 27
1956	Apr 21	Oct 12	Mar 25	Nov 11
1955	Mar 30	Nov 4	Mar 28	Nov 4
1954	Apr 5	Oct 31	Mar 22	Nov 1
1953	Apr 20	Nov 5	Mar 9	Nov 7
1952	Mar 25	Oct 21	Mar 9	Oct 21
1951	Mar 27	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.