Hot Springs, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314260, 1988 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,345 ft, 35.895, -82.831. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 12	Oct 30
Earliest	Mar 28 (2006)	Oct 10 (2000)
Latest	May 16 (1997)	Nov 21 (2024)
Trend	2.9 days earlier per decade	4.5 days later per decade
Years with data	31	30

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 28 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.

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 14	Oct 24	Mar 12	Nov 11
2024	Mar 29	Nov 21	Mar 19	Nov 25
2023	Apr 25	Nov 1	Mar 31	Nov 2
2022	Apr 11	Oct 20	Mar 28	Nov 14
2021	Apr 23	Nov 7	Apr 22	Nov 14
2020	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 1	Nov 3
2019	Apr 3	Nov 2	Apr 1	Nov 13
2018	Apr 21	Nov 11	Apr 5	Nov 11
2017	Apr 9	Oct 30	Mar 17	Nov 20
2016	Apr 10	Nov 11	Apr 10	Nov 11
2015	Apr 5	Oct 18	Mar 30	Nov 14
2014	Apr 17	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 3
2013	Apr 4	Oct 26	Mar 23	Oct 26
2012	Apr 14	Nov 3	Apr 13	Nov 16
2011	Apr 7	Oct 30	Mar 12	Nov 11
2010	Mar 31	Nov 7	Mar 8	Nov 7
2009	Apr 9	Oct 19	Apr 9	Nov 28
2008	Apr 17	Oct 22	Mar 26	Oct 30
2007	Apr 11	Nov 4	Apr 10	Nov 7
2006	Mar 28	Oct 14	Mar 28	Oct 14
2005	Apr 25	Oct 27	Mar 10	Oct 30
2004	Apr 15	Nov 6	Apr 6	Nov 26
2003	Apr 1	Nov 14	Feb 14	Nov 14
2002	Apr 6	Nov 2	Apr 6	Nov 2
2001	Apr 19	Oct 18	Apr 2	Oct 28
2000	Apr 27	Oct 10	Mar 14	Oct 10
1999	Mar 30	Oct 25	Mar 28	Oct 25
1998	Apr 12	Oct 23	Mar 23	Oct 23
1997	May 16	Oct 23	Apr 11	Nov 17
1996	no data	Oct 19	no data	Nov 3
1992	Apr 30	no data	Apr 4	no data
1988	Apr 21	no data	Mar 18	no data

"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.