Frost history / Old Ft Ag 3 W, NC
Old Ft Ag 3 W, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00316380, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,425 ft, 35.667, -82.124. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 18 | Oct 23 |
| Earliest | Apr 4 (2019) | Oct 17 (2024) |
| Latest | May 11 (2020) | Nov 2 (2012) |
| Trend | 10.8 days later per decade | 2.9 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 13 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.
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 24 | Apr 14 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Mar 26 | Nov 24 |
| 2023 | Apr 26 | Oct 24 | Apr 11 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 19 | Apr 3 | Oct 20 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | Oct 28 | Apr 24 | Nov 15 |
| 2020 | May 11 | Oct 18 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 |
| 2019 | Apr 4 | Oct 25 | Apr 2 | Nov 3 |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 22 | Apr 18 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Apr 10 | Oct 27 | Mar 24 | Oct 30 |
| 2016 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 | Apr 11 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 |
| 2012 | Apr 14 | Nov 2 | Apr 13 | Nov 9 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | Oct 21 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 |
"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.