Frost history / Roxboro 7 Ese, NC
Roxboro 7 Ese, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317516, 1957 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 710 ft, 36.346, -78.886. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 9 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Feb 21 (2024) | Oct 1 (1993) |
| Latest | May 12 (1997) | Dec 3 (1985) |
| Trend | 1.1 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 51 | 52 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.
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 4 | no data |
| 2024 | Feb 21 | no data | Jan 23 | no data |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 | Feb 5 | Nov 28 |
| 2022 | Apr 20 | Nov 17 | Mar 29 | Nov 17 |
| 2021 | Mar 9 | Oct 26 | Feb 22 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Dec 25 |
| 2019 | Apr 4 | Nov 1 | Mar 27 | Nov 8 |
| 2018 | Apr 22 | Oct 22 | Apr 21 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Apr 9 | Oct 17 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 7 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Mar 30 | Nov 15 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | Apr 4 | Oct 21 | Mar 30 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 25 | Nov 6 | Mar 12 | Nov 23 |
| 2011 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 | Mar 30 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | Mar 10 | Oct 23 | Mar 9 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 18 | Nov 7 | Mar 23 | Dec 7 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 20 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2000 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 9 |
| 1997 | May 12 | Oct 23 | Apr 10 | Oct 23 |
| 1996 | Apr 11 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 1995 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1994 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 27 |
| 1993 | Apr 28 | Oct 1 | Apr 28 | Oct 24 |
| 1992 | Apr 29 | no data | Apr 7 | no data |
| 1991 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 21 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1988 | Apr 20 | Oct 7 | Mar 23 | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | Apr 6 | Oct 13 | Apr 2 | Oct 23 |
| 1986 | Apr 24 | Nov 14 | Apr 23 | Nov 14 |
| 1985 | Apr 11 | Dec 3 | Apr 11 | Dec 3 |
| 1984 | Mar 14 | no data | Mar 13 | no data |
| 1983 | Apr 20 | Nov 13 | Apr 19 | Dec 18 |
| 1982 | Apr 10 | Nov 6 | Apr 8 | Nov 6 |
| 1981 | Mar 24 | Nov 13 | Mar 21 | Nov 13 |
| 1980 | Mar 27 | Oct 13 | Mar 23 | Nov 12 |
| 1979 | Mar 26 | Oct 14 | Mar 16 | Oct 27 |
| 1978 | Mar 26 | Nov 25 | Mar 18 | Dec 10 |
| 1977 | Apr 9 | Nov 12 | Mar 3 | Nov 13 |
| 1976 | Apr 27 | Oct 18 | Mar 18 | Oct 18 |
| 1975 | Apr 14 | Oct 31 | Mar 10 | Nov 15 |
| 1974 | Apr 11 | Oct 3 | Apr 10 | Oct 3 |
| 1973 | Apr 12 | Nov 6 | Feb 23 | Nov 10 |
| 1972 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 1971 | Mar 31 | Nov 5 | Mar 27 | Nov 8 |
| 1970 | Apr 8 | Oct 17 | Apr 8 | Nov 17 |
| 1969 | Apr 1 | Oct 18 | Mar 13 | Oct 24 |
| 1968 | Apr 25 | Oct 5 | Apr 7 | Oct 5 |
| 1967 | Apr 29 | Oct 22 | Mar 24 | Oct 29 |
| 1966 | May 10 | Oct 21 | Apr 10 | Nov 4 |
| 1965 | Apr 3 | Oct 29 | Apr 3 | Oct 29 |
| 1964 | Apr 1 | Oct 7 | Apr 1 | Oct 12 |
| 1963 | Mar 23 | Nov 2 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 |
| 1962 | Apr 16 | no data | Mar 8 | no data |
| 1961 | Mar 19 | Nov 9 | Mar 17 | Nov 29 |
| 1960 | Apr 10 | Nov 8 | Mar 25 | Nov 11 |
| 1959 | Mar 29 | Nov 8 | Mar 18 | Nov 18 |
| 1958 | Mar 22 | Nov 27 | Feb 21 | Dec 1 |
| 1957 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Nov 11 |
"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.