Reelsboro, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317170, 2007 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 45 ft, 35.131, -76.915. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 24	Nov 15
Earliest	Feb 28 (2008)	Nov 2 (2023)
Latest	Apr 10 (2016)	Dec 18 (2007)
Trend	6.6 days later per decade	10.4 days earlier per decade
Years with data	16	17

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 25.

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 4	no data	Mar 3	no data
2024	Mar 25	Nov 30	Feb 4	Nov 30
2023	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 29
2022	Mar 29	Nov 18	Mar 29	Nov 18
2021	Apr 3	Nov 16	Apr 3	Nov 24
2020	Mar 9	Nov 19	Mar 8	Dec 3
2019	Mar 24	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Mar 23	no data	Feb 9	no data
2017	Mar 24	Nov 11	Mar 17	Dec 11
2016	Apr 10	Nov 13	Apr 6	Nov 22
2015	Mar 30	Nov 15	Mar 29	Nov 24
2014	Mar 27	Nov 3	Mar 27	Nov 15
2013	Mar 29	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 14
2012	no data	Nov 9	no data	Nov 25
2011	no data	Nov 12	no data	Dec 19
2010	Mar 7	Dec 7	Feb 14	Dec 8
2009	Mar 5	Dec 12	Mar 4	none
2008	Feb 28	Nov 19	Jan 22	Dec 23
2007	no data	Dec 18	no data	none

"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.