Morganton, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00315838, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,180 ft, 35.730, -81.673. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 16	Oct 20
Earliest	Mar 9 (1977)	Oct 1 (1992)
Latest	May 22 (1954)	Nov 18 (2020)
Trend	3.4 days earlier per decade	2.5 days later per decade
Years with data	68	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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