Plymouth 5 E, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00316853, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 20 ft, 35.872, -76.659. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Nov 2
Earliest	Mar 1 (2024)	Oct 4 (1974)
Latest	May 11 (1966)	Nov 30 (2024)
Trend	3.3 days earlier per decade	3.0 days later per decade
Years with data	75	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.

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 28	Nov 11	Mar 28	Nov 29
2024	Mar 1	Nov 30	Feb 22	Dec 1
2023	Apr 11	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 29
2022	Mar 29	Nov 18	Mar 28	Nov 18
2021	Apr 4	Nov 16	Mar 8	Nov 24
2020	Apr 16	Nov 19	Mar 8	Dec 3
2019	Mar 24	Nov 10	Mar 7	Nov 14
2018	Mar 24	Nov 17	Mar 17	Nov 29
2017	Mar 24	Nov 18	Mar 17	Dec 13
2016	Apr 10	Nov 13	Apr 6	Nov 13
2015	Mar 29	Nov 15	Mar 29	Nov 24
2014	Mar 27	Nov 3	Mar 27	Nov 3
2013	Apr 7	Oct 26	Mar 30	Nov 14
2012	Mar 11	Nov 3	Mar 11	Nov 9
2011	Mar 29	Oct 31	Mar 29	Nov 18
2010	Mar 17	Nov 8	Mar 7	Nov 29
2009	Apr 17	Nov 7	Mar 25	Dec 12
2008	Mar 18	Oct 30	Feb 28	Oct 31
2007	Apr 10	Nov 8	Apr 8	Nov 17
2006	Mar 23	Oct 26	Mar 8	Dec 5
2005	Mar 15	Nov 12	Mar 15	Nov 19
2004	Apr 6	Nov 15	Mar 24	Dec 15
2003	Apr 2	Nov 30	Feb 19	Dec 8
2002	Apr 7	Nov 1	Mar 23	Nov 29
2001	Apr 19	Oct 27	Mar 28	Nov 22
2000	Apr 1	Nov 3	Mar 14	Nov 16
1999	Mar 23	Nov 4	Mar 9	Nov 18
1998	Mar 16	Nov 7	Mar 13	Nov 8
1997	Apr 11	Nov 17	Feb 18	Nov 17
1996	Apr 8	Nov 4	Mar 24	Nov 13
1995	Apr 3	Nov 9	Mar 11	Nov 16
1994	Apr 9	Nov 24	Feb 28	Dec 20
1993	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 19	Nov 30
1992	Apr 6	Oct 20	Mar 25	Nov 15
1991	Mar 17	Nov 6	Mar 12	Nov 6
1990	Mar 28	Nov 19	Feb 27	Dec 1
1989	Apr 12	Nov 18	Feb 26	Nov 23
1988	Mar 22	Oct 14	Mar 22	Dec 5
1987	Apr 1	Oct 23	Mar 7	Nov 22
1986	Apr 12	Nov 14	Mar 23	Dec 7
1985	Apr 10	Nov 9	Mar 26	Dec 3
1984	Apr 11	Nov 8	Apr 2	Nov 15
1983	Apr 21	Oct 28	Mar 26	Nov 14
1982	Apr 12	Oct 18	Apr 8	Nov 7
1981	Apr 22	Oct 20	Apr 22	Oct 20
1980	Mar 24	Oct 27	Mar 7	Nov 3
1979	Apr 7	Oct 15	Mar 18	Nov 30
1978	Mar 23	Oct 25	Mar 19	Nov 26
1977	Apr 10	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 18
1976	Apr 29	Oct 11	Apr 13	Oct 29
1975	Apr 13	Nov 1	Apr 8	Nov 16
1974	Apr 11	Oct 4	Mar 15	Oct 22
1973	Apr 15	Oct 18	Apr 15	Nov 7
1972	Apr 27	Nov 18	Apr 10	Nov 22
1971	Apr 23	Nov 8	Mar 28	Nov 9
1970	Apr 8	Oct 18	Mar 17	Nov 17
1969	Apr 21	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 16
1968	Mar 25	Oct 27	Mar 25	Oct 31
1967	Apr 13	Oct 20	Apr 13	Nov 6
1966	May 11	Oct 31	Apr 11	Oct 31
1965	Apr 4	Oct 6	Apr 1	Oct 30
1964	Apr 10	Oct 12	Apr 2	Nov 23
1963	Apr 16	Oct 15	Feb 28	Oct 31
1962	Apr 18	Oct 25	Apr 4	Oct 26
1961	Apr 21	Oct 27	Apr 21	Nov 11
1960	Apr 11	Oct 25	Mar 27	Nov 8
1959	Apr 5	Nov 11	Mar 29	Nov 18
1958	Mar 30	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 30
1957	Apr 16	Oct 28	Apr 16	Oct 29
1956	Apr 10	Nov 10	Mar 22	Nov 23
1955	Apr 9	Oct 26	Apr 1	Nov 6
1954	May 11	no data	Mar 22	no data
1953	Apr 22	Nov 7	Mar 10	Nov 26
1952	Apr 17	Oct 21	Mar 18	Oct 22
1951	Apr 21	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 4

"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.