Frost history / Jacksonville Eoc, NC
Jacksonville Eoc, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314471, 2005 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 17 ft, 34.796, -77.401. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 31 | Nov 8 |
| Earliest | Mar 9 (2010) | Oct 14 (2006) |
| Latest | Apr 17 (2009) | Nov 24 (2015) |
| Trend | 0.6 days later per decade | 7.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 16 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 | Mar 22 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 28 | Nov 18 | Mar 14 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 4 | Nov 16 | Apr 4 | Nov 24 |
| 2020 | Apr 16 | no data | Mar 10 | no data |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Nov 9 | Mar 8 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Mar 28 | Nov 23 | Mar 15 | Nov 29 |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 | Mar 23 | Nov 20 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 | Apr 11 | Nov 21 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Nov 24 | Mar 30 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Nov 25 |
| 2010 | Mar 9 | Nov 8 | Mar 8 | Nov 28 |
| 2009 | Apr 17 | Nov 7 | Mar 6 | Dec 12 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Oct 30 | Mar 1 | Oct 31 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Nov 7 | Apr 9 | Nov 17 |
| 2006 | Apr 11 | Oct 14 | Mar 24 | Nov 4 |
| 2005 | Mar 16 | Nov 11 | Mar 10 | Nov 19 |
"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.