Randleman, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317097, 1977 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 810 ft, 35.822, -79.792. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 6	Nov 3
Earliest	Mar 9 (2020)	Oct 9 (1978)
Latest	Apr 23 (2021)	Nov 22 (2024)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	6.2 days later per decade
Years with data	11	12

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 16 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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	Apr 13	no data	Mar 7	no data
2024	Apr 6	Nov 22	Feb 25	Nov 30
2023	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Mar 29	no data	Mar 29	no data
2021	Apr 23	Nov 5	Apr 4	Nov 21
2020	Mar 9	Nov 18	Mar 8	Nov 19
2019	Apr 3	Nov 3	Mar 8	Nov 9
2018	Apr 9	no data	Mar 16	no data
2017	Mar 24	Nov 11	Mar 18	Nov 12
2016	Apr 11	Nov 13	Mar 4	Nov 13
2015	Apr 6	Oct 19	Mar 30	Nov 23
2014	no data	Nov 3	no data	Nov 3
1979	no data	Oct 14	no data	Oct 27
1978	no data	Oct 9	no data	Oct 19
1977	no data	Oct 18	no data	Oct 18

"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.