Richlands, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00316422, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 20 ft, 34.925, -77.511. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Nov 6
Earliest	Mar 6 (2025)	Oct 15 (2006)
Latest	Apr 23 (2021)	Nov 21 (2024)
Trend	8.0 days earlier per decade	9.2 days later per decade
Years with data	20	20

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.

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	Mar 6	Nov 9	Mar 3	Nov 26
2024	Mar 24	Nov 21	Feb 21	Nov 28
2023	Apr 11	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 1
2021	Apr 23	Nov 15	Apr 3	Nov 23
2020	Apr 16	Nov 18	Mar 8	Nov 18
2019	Apr 2	Nov 3	Mar 8	Nov 12
2018	Mar 28	Nov 16	Mar 16	Nov 28
2017	Mar 24	Nov 11	Mar 17	Nov 20
2016	Apr 10	Nov 8	Apr 10	Nov 21
2015	Mar 30	Nov 15	Mar 30	Nov 24
2014	Mar 27	no data	Mar 27	no data
2013	Mar 30	Oct 26	Mar 30	Nov 14
2012	Apr 13	Nov 4	Mar 12	Nov 26
2011	Apr 7	Oct 30	Mar 30	Nov 12
2010	Mar 18	Oct 18	Mar 7	Nov 29
2009	Apr 17	Oct 21	Mar 22	Dec 12
2008	Apr 18	Oct 30	Mar 10	Oct 31
2007	Apr 11	Nov 7	Apr 10	Nov 7
2006	Apr 13	Oct 15	Mar 27	Nov 3
2005	Apr 17	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 19
2004	no data	Nov 10	no data	Nov 10

"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.