Last Frost Day

Frost history / Robbinsville Ag 5 Ne, NC

Robbinsville Ag 5 Ne, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317344, 2005 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,330 ft, 35.376, -83.700. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 13Oct 24
EarliestMar 21 (2017)Oct 5 (2014)
LatestMay 10 (2020)Nov 10 (2016)
Trend4.1 days later per decade3.9 days later per decade
Years with data1115

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202010: Mar 282011: May 62012: Apr 132013: Apr 202014: Apr 172015: Apr 62016: Apr 112017: Mar 212018: Apr 212019: Apr 42020: May 10

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202005: Oct 272006: Oct 152007: Oct 302008: Oct 192009: Oct 192010: Oct 302011: Oct 222012: Oct 302013: Oct 242014: Oct 52015: Oct 182016: Nov 102017: Oct 302018: Oct 212019: Nov 1

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2020May 10no dataMay 10no data
2019Apr 4Nov 1Apr 2Nov 1
2018Apr 21Oct 21Apr 9Nov 10
2017Mar 21Oct 30Mar 18Oct 30
2016Apr 11Nov 10Apr 11Nov 20
2015Apr 6Oct 18Mar 30Nov 15
2014Apr 17Oct 5Apr 17Nov 2
2013Apr 20Oct 24Mar 30Oct 25
2012Apr 13Oct 30Apr 13Nov 9
2011May 6Oct 22Apr 7Oct 30
2010Mar 28Oct 30Mar 28Nov 6
2009no dataOct 19no dataOct 19
2008no dataOct 19no dataOct 29
2007no dataOct 30no dataNov 7
2006no dataOct 15no dataOct 25
2005no dataOct 27no dataOct 29

"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.