Lumberton, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00315177, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 112 ft, 34.627, -79.025. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 30	Nov 2
Earliest	Feb 20 (2024)	Oct 3 (1981)
Latest	May 10 (1980)	Nov 30 (2024)
Trend	3.5 days earlier per decade	2.7 days later per decade
Years with data	65	63

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 18 and the median first fall date is Nov 15.

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

"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.