Perrytown, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00316676, 2003 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 28 ft, 35.056, -77.086. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 22	Nov 15
Earliest	Feb 19 (2016)	Oct 20 (2022)
Latest	Apr 17 (2009)	Dec 13 (2017)
Trend	11.1 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	19	22

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.

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.

Chart

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 8	Nov 11	Mar 4	Nov 28
2024	Feb 26	Nov 24	Feb 19	Nov 30
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 29
2022	Mar 29	Oct 20	Mar 14	Nov 18
2021	Apr 4	Nov 16	Apr 3	Nov 24
2020	Mar 10	Nov 19	Mar 9	Dec 3
2019	Mar 7	Nov 10	Jan 23	Dec 6
2018	Mar 16	Nov 29	Jan 9	none
2017	Mar 18	Dec 13	Jan 10	Dec 30
2016	Feb 19	Nov 22	Feb 15	none
2015	Mar 30	Nov 24	Mar 8	none
2014	Mar 28	Nov 19	Mar 28	Nov 19
2013	Mar 23	Nov 14	Feb 19	Nov 14
2012	Mar 11	Nov 25	Mar 6	none
2011	Mar 29	Nov 12	Feb 17	Dec 2
2010	Mar 9	Nov 28	Mar 7	Dec 6
2009	Apr 17	Nov 28	Mar 5	Dec 12
2008	no data	Oct 31	no data	Nov 22
2007	Apr 10	Nov 8	Mar 20	Nov 17
2006	Mar 28	Nov 4	Mar 8	Dec 6
2005	no data	Nov 12	no data	Dec 3
2003	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 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.