Lexington, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314970, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 760 ft, 35.846, -80.260. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 7	Oct 28
Earliest	Mar 8 (1977)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	May 10 (2020)	Nov 22 (1964)
Trend	2.4 days later per decade	1.4 days earlier per decade
Years with data	73	70

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.

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

"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.