Raeford, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317056, 1992 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 250 ft, 34.987, -79.219. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 6	Oct 30
Earliest	Mar 14 (1998)	Oct 9 (2000)
Latest	Apr 20 (2001)	Nov 17 (1997)
Trend	2.4 days later per decade	2.3 days later per decade
Years with data	18	21

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 15 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.

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
2014	Mar 28	Nov 3	Mar 28	Nov 3
2013	Mar 30	Oct 26	Mar 30	Nov 13
2012	Apr 15	Nov 1	Mar 8	Nov 8
2011	Apr 7	Oct 30	Mar 13	Nov 12
2010	no data	Nov 7	no data	Nov 28
2009	Apr 9	Nov 7	Mar 7	Nov 28
2008	Apr 16	Oct 29	Mar 9	Nov 19
2007	no data	Nov 7	no data	Nov 7
2006	Apr 10	no data	Mar 26	no data
2005	no data	Oct 30	no data	Nov 12
2003	Apr 1	Nov 14	Mar 9	Nov 30
2002	Apr 8	Nov 8	Mar 24	Nov 23
2001	Apr 20	Oct 27	Apr 20	Oct 28
2000	Mar 15	Oct 9	Mar 14	Nov 16
1999	Mar 28	Oct 26	Mar 13	Nov 18
1998	Mar 14	Oct 23	Mar 14	Nov 7
1997	Apr 12	Nov 17	Apr 11	Nov 17
1996	Apr 11	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 4
1995	Apr 4	Nov 5	Mar 12	Nov 5
1994	Apr 2	Oct 28	Mar 17	Nov 24
1993	Apr 3	Oct 29	Mar 20	Nov 2
1992	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 20

"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.