Last Frost Day

Frost history / Murfreesboro, NC

Murfreesboro, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00315996, 1974 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 100 ft, 36.452, -77.080. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 8Nov 2
EarliestMar 3 (2024)Oct 4 (1974)
LatestMay 12 (2020)Nov 29 (2024)
Trend0.6 days earlier per decade4.2 days later per decade
Years with data4037

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30198019902000201020201975: Apr 131976: Apr 131977: Apr 71978: Mar 181979: Mar 191980: Mar 231981: Apr 221982: Apr 101983: Apr 221984: Apr 21985: Apr 101986: Mar 291987: Apr 51988: Apr 201990: Apr 211998: Apr 131999: Mar 232000: Mar 192001: Apr 202002: Apr 82003: Mar 152004: Apr 62005: Apr 172007: Apr 122008: Apr 172011: Mar 302012: Apr 132013: Apr 72014: Apr 182015: Mar 302016: Apr 102017: Mar 252018: Apr 92019: Apr 172020: May 122021: Apr 42022: Apr 212023: Mar 222024: Mar 32025: Mar 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11198019902000201020201974: Oct 41975: Oct 311976: Oct 191977: Nov 131979: Oct 271980: Oct 141982: Oct 171983: Nov 51984: Nov 71985: Nov 91986: Oct 201987: Oct 41998: Oct 231999: Nov 42000: Oct 312001: Oct 92002: Nov 22003: Oct 242004: Nov 102005: Oct 272006: Oct 252007: Oct 302011: Oct 302012: Nov 32013: Oct 262014: Nov 32015: Oct 192016: Nov 132017: Nov 112018: Nov 112019: Nov 92020: Nov 192021: Nov 162022: Nov 182023: Nov 22024: Nov 292025: Nov 11

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Mar 9Nov 11Mar 3Nov 29
2024Mar 3Nov 29Feb 23Dec 3
2023Mar 22Nov 2Mar 22Nov 2
2022Apr 21Nov 18Mar 30Nov 18
2021Apr 4Nov 16Mar 9Nov 20
2020May 12Nov 19Mar 8Dec 8
2019Apr 17Nov 9Mar 28Nov 9
2018Apr 9Nov 11Mar 19Nov 11
2017Mar 25Nov 11Mar 25Nov 11
2016Apr 10Nov 13Apr 10Nov 13
2015Mar 30Oct 19Mar 30Nov 23
2014Apr 18Nov 3Mar 28Nov 15
2013Apr 7Oct 26Mar 23Oct 26
2012Apr 13Nov 3Mar 12Nov 9
2011Mar 30Oct 30Mar 29Nov 18
2008Apr 17no dataMar 19no data
2007Apr 12Oct 30Apr 10Nov 7
2006no dataOct 25no dataOct 26
2005Apr 17Oct 27Apr 17Oct 30
2004Apr 6Nov 10Apr 6Nov 10
2003Mar 15Oct 24Mar 15Nov 26
2002Apr 8Nov 2Apr 8Nov 19
2001Apr 20Oct 9Mar 28Oct 29
2000Mar 19Oct 31Mar 14Oct 31
1999Mar 23Nov 4Mar 16Nov 18
1998Apr 13Oct 23Mar 16Nov 7
1990Apr 21no dataApr 20no data
1988Apr 20no dataMar 22no data
1987Apr 5Oct 4Mar 23Oct 22
1986Mar 29Oct 20Mar 23Nov 14
1985Apr 10Nov 9Apr 10Dec 3
1984Apr 2Nov 7Mar 26Nov 8
1983Apr 22Nov 5Apr 21Nov 13
1982Apr 10Oct 17Apr 10Nov 6
1981Apr 22no dataApr 7no data
1980Mar 23Oct 14Mar 12Nov 3
1979Mar 19Oct 27Mar 17Nov 15
1978Mar 18no dataMar 6no data
1977Apr 7Nov 13Mar 3Nov 14
1976Apr 13Oct 19Mar 18Oct 29
1975Apr 13Oct 31Apr 13Nov 15
1974no dataOct 4no dataOct 22

"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.