Jackson, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314456, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 123 ft, 36.396, -77.424. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 31
Earliest	Mar 9 (2020)	Oct 3 (1984)
Latest	May 9 (1956)	Dec 3 (1985)
Trend	2.0 days earlier per decade	2.1 days later per decade
Years with data	69	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 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 28	Nov 11	Mar 4	Nov 28
2024	Mar 26	Nov 23	Feb 23	Nov 30
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 3
2022	Apr 21	Nov 14	Mar 30	Nov 18
2021	Apr 4	Nov 14	Apr 4	Nov 23
2020	Mar 9	Nov 18	Mar 9	Nov 19
2019	Apr 4	Nov 5	Mar 28	Nov 9
2018	Apr 9	Nov 11	Mar 25	Nov 11
2017	Apr 9	Nov 11	Mar 25	Nov 11
2016	no data	Nov 13	no data	Nov 13
2015	Apr 6	Oct 19	Mar 8	Nov 23
2014	Apr 18	Nov 3	Mar 28	Nov 15
2013	Apr 8	Oct 26	Mar 30	Oct 26
2012	Mar 12	Nov 3	Mar 12	Nov 25
2011	Mar 30	Oct 30	Mar 30	Nov 19
2010	Mar 28	Nov 8	Mar 8	Nov 28
2009	Apr 9	no data	Mar 22	no data
2008	Apr 17	Oct 29	Mar 10	Nov 18
2007	Apr 11	Nov 8	Apr 10	Nov 17
2006	Apr 11	Oct 25	Mar 24	Nov 4
2005	Mar 20	Nov 11	Mar 11	Nov 18
2004	Apr 7	Nov 10	Mar 24	Nov 26
2003	Apr 1	Nov 14	Mar 11	Dec 4
2002	Apr 8	Nov 19	Apr 8	Nov 28
2001	Apr 19	Oct 29	Mar 28	Oct 29
2000	Mar 19	Nov 6	Mar 14	Nov 16
1999	Mar 23	Nov 4	Mar 16	Nov 4
1998	Mar 24	Nov 5	Mar 14	Nov 7
1997	Apr 12	Oct 23	Apr 10	Nov 17
1996	Apr 10	Nov 3	Apr 8	Nov 4
1995	Apr 3	no data	Mar 11	no data
1994	Apr 9	no data	Mar 17	no data
1993	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 2
1992	Apr 6	no data	Apr 3	no data
1991	Mar 17	Nov 5	Mar 9	Nov 5
1990	Apr 19	no data	Mar 5	no data
1989	no data	Nov 17	no data	Nov 19
1988	Apr 21	Oct 13	Mar 22	Oct 14
1987	Apr 6	no data	Apr 1	no data
1986	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 14
1985	no data	Dec 3	no data	Dec 3
1984	Apr 11	Oct 3	Mar 12	Nov 7
1983	Apr 21	Nov 5	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	Apr 12	Oct 18	Apr 10	Nov 6
1981	Apr 22	Oct 20	Apr 7	Oct 20
1980	Apr 17	Oct 31	Mar 15	Nov 13
1979	Apr 7	Oct 27	Mar 17	Nov 15
1978	Mar 18	Oct 25	Mar 11	Nov 26
1977	Apr 10	Oct 18	Mar 25	Nov 13
1976	Apr 28	Oct 19	Apr 13	Oct 28
1975	Apr 13	Oct 31	Apr 13	Nov 1
1974	Apr 7	Oct 4	Mar 26	Oct 21
1973	Apr 15	Oct 18	Apr 12	Nov 7
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 10	Nov 23
1971	Apr 11	Nov 8	Mar 31	Nov 8
1970	Apr 8	Oct 18	Mar 17	Nov 24
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Mar 28	Nov 15
1968	Mar 25	Oct 31	Mar 25	Nov 14
1967	Apr 13	Oct 29	Mar 23	Nov 6
1966	Apr 11	Oct 31	Mar 29	Nov 4
1965	Apr 4	Oct 29	Apr 1	Oct 30
1964	Apr 2	Oct 12	Apr 2	Nov 22
1963	Apr 16	Oct 31	Mar 23	Nov 4
1962	Apr 18	Oct 25	Apr 18	Oct 27
1961	Apr 30	Oct 27	Apr 8	Oct 28
1960	Apr 20	Oct 25	Apr 11	Oct 25
1959	Apr 5	Nov 3	Mar 29	Nov 18
1958	Apr 4	Oct 30	Mar 11	Nov 22
1957	Apr 16	Oct 27	Mar 11	Oct 29
1956	May 9	Nov 10	Mar 25	Nov 23
1955	Apr 1	Oct 26	Mar 30	Nov 5
1954	Apr 2	Nov 1	Mar 22	Nov 1
1953	Apr 22	Nov 6	Mar 9	Nov 7
1952	no data	Oct 21	no data	Oct 22
1951	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 4

"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.