Frost history / Lillington, NC
Lillington, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00314987, 2012 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 150 ft, 35.407, -78.820. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 28 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (2025) | Oct 19 (2015) |
| Latest | May 6 (2021) | Nov 30 (2024) |
| Trend | 10.5 days earlier per decade | 16.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 10 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 21.
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 7 | Nov 11 | Mar 3 | Nov 28 |
| 2024 | Mar 25 | Nov 30 | Feb 20 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 | Mar 21 | Nov 3 |
| 2022 | Mar 28 | no data | Mar 13 | no data |
| 2021 | May 6 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 2020 | Mar 9 | Nov 18 | Mar 8 | Nov 19 |
| 2019 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 18 | no data |
| 2016 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 |
| 2013 | Mar 30 | Oct 26 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 23 |
"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.