Lenoir, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314938, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,155 ft, 35.915, -81.537. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 12	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 21 (1993)	Sep 30 (1967)
Latest	May 21 (1997)	Nov 14 (2003)
Trend	1.8 days earlier per decade	1.2 days later per decade
Years with data	73	70

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 22 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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