Mt Airy 2 W, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00315890, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,080 ft, 36.496, -80.652. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 22	Oct 19
Earliest	Mar 31 (1978)	Sep 23 (1983)
Latest	May 23 (2002)	Nov 7 (1985)
Trend	0.7 days earlier per decade	1.5 days later per decade
Years with data	72	73

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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.

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