Last Frost Day

Frost history / New Hill, NC

New Hill, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00316122, 2009 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 320 ft, 35.681, -78.916. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 9Nov 3
EarliestMar 18 (2010)Oct 17 (2015)
LatestApr 24 (2021)Nov 14 (2021)
Trend7.8 days later per decade9.9 days later per decade
Years with data1112

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202010: Mar 182011: Apr 62012: Apr 242013: Mar 302014: Apr 182016: Apr 112017: Apr 92018: Apr 82020: Apr 162021: Apr 242022: Mar 29

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202009: Oct 202010: Nov 72012: Nov 22013: Oct 262014: Nov 32015: Oct 172016: Nov 82017: Nov 112018: Nov 112019: Oct 252020: Nov 32021: Nov 14

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
2022Mar 29no dataMar 14no data
2021Apr 24Nov 14Apr 4Nov 24
2020Apr 16Nov 3Mar 9Nov 19
2019no dataOct 25no dataNov 9
2018Apr 8Nov 11Mar 24Nov 11
2017Apr 9Nov 11Mar 21Nov 11
2016Apr 11Nov 8Apr 10Nov 13
2015no dataOct 17no dataNov 15
2014Apr 18Nov 3Mar 27Nov 3
2013Mar 30Oct 26Mar 30Oct 26
2012Apr 24Nov 2Mar 11Nov 23
2011Apr 6no dataMar 29no data
2010Mar 18Nov 7Mar 8Nov 7
2009no dataOct 20no dataNov 28

"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.