Frost history / Hofmann Forest, NC
Hofmann Forest, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314144, 1981 to 2010, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 47 ft, 34.836, -77.303. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 11 | Oct 29 |
| Earliest | Mar 16 (1991) | Oct 10 (2000) |
| Latest | May 11 (1986) | Dec 3 (1985) |
| Trend | 0.9 days later per decade | 2.4 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 27 |
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Apr 29 | Oct 23 | Mar 17 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 17 | Oct 19 | Apr 17 | Nov 7 |
| 2008 | Apr 17 | Oct 20 | Apr 17 | Oct 30 |
| 2007 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 2006 | Apr 11 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 2004 | Apr 16 | no data | Apr 5 | no data |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Nov 14 | Feb 19 | Nov 30 |
| 2002 | Mar 24 | Nov 2 | Mar 23 | Nov 28 |
| 2001 | Apr 27 | Oct 28 | Apr 19 | Oct 29 |
| 2000 | Mar 24 | Oct 10 | Feb 22 | Nov 16 |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | Nov 4 | Mar 16 | Nov 4 |
| 1998 | Apr 13 | no data | Mar 14 | no data |
| 1997 | Apr 19 | Oct 24 | Apr 11 | Nov 17 |
| 1996 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 |
| 1995 | Apr 3 | Nov 5 | Mar 11 | Nov 5 |
| 1994 | Apr 2 | Oct 28 | Mar 18 | Nov 3 |
| 1993 | Mar 19 | Oct 12 | Mar 16 | Nov 2 |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | Oct 20 | Apr 6 | Nov 15 |
| 1991 | Mar 16 | Nov 6 | Mar 12 | Nov 25 |
| 1990 | Apr 9 | Oct 29 | Feb 27 | Nov 19 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Nov 18 | Feb 26 | Nov 24 |
| 1988 | Mar 22 | Oct 14 | Mar 17 | Dec 5 |
| 1987 | Apr 29 | Nov 7 | Apr 2 | Nov 22 |
| 1986 | May 11 | Oct 21 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 |
| 1985 | Apr 11 | Dec 3 | Apr 10 | Dec 4 |
| 1984 | Apr 2 | Nov 8 | Mar 10 | Dec 7 |
| 1983 | Apr 22 | Nov 6 | Mar 26 | Dec 8 |
| 1982 | Apr 8 | Oct 16 | Feb 23 | Nov 16 |
| 1981 | no data | Oct 20 | no data | 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.