Last Frost Day

Frost history / Lake Lure 2, NC

Lake Lure 2, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314764, 2014 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,040 ft, 35.420, -82.188. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Nov 2
EarliestMar 10 (2020)Oct 17 (2024)
LatestApr 22 (2021)Nov 14 (2021)
Trend1.4 days later per decade4.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data1212

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 20 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 3020202014: Apr 182015: Apr 62016: Apr 112017: Mar 232018: Apr 172019: Apr 42020: Mar 102021: Apr 222022: Apr 112023: Apr 102024: Apr 82025: Apr 13

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202014: Oct 312015: Oct 192016: Nov 132017: Oct 302018: Nov 112019: Nov 92020: Nov 32021: Nov 142022: Oct 202023: Nov 22024: Oct 172025: Nov 1

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 13Nov 1Mar 11Nov 12
2024Apr 8Oct 17Feb 26Nov 30
2023Apr 10Nov 2Mar 22Nov 2
2022Apr 11Oct 20Mar 15Nov 14
2021Apr 22Nov 14Apr 4Nov 15
2020Mar 10Nov 3Mar 9Dec 3
2019Apr 4Nov 9Mar 20Nov 9
2018Apr 17Nov 11Mar 15Nov 11
2017Mar 23Oct 30Mar 20Nov 20
2016Apr 11Nov 13Apr 10Nov 20
2015Apr 6Oct 19Mar 30Nov 15
2014Apr 18Oct 31Apr 17Nov 3

"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.