Salisbury, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317615, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 700 ft, 35.684, -80.482. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 29
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	May 20 (2007)	Nov 22 (2024)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.0 days later per decade
Years with data	70	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 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	Nov 11	Mar 3	Nov 28
2024	Apr 7	Nov 22	Feb 25	Nov 30
2023	Apr 11	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 14	Nov 14
2021	Apr 22	Nov 5	Apr 3	Nov 20
2020	Apr 11	Nov 2	Mar 8	Dec 2
2019	Apr 3	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 9
2018	Apr 30	Nov 11	Apr 30	Nov 11
2017	Mar 23	Nov 10	Mar 17	Nov 11
2016	Apr 10	Nov 11	Apr 10	Nov 13
2015	Apr 5	Oct 18	Mar 29	Nov 16
2014	Apr 17	Nov 3	Mar 27	Nov 3
2013	Mar 29	Oct 26	Mar 29	Oct 26
2012	Mar 11	Nov 7	Mar 6	Nov 10
2011	Apr 6	Oct 30	Apr 6	Nov 12
2010	Mar 27	Nov 7	Mar 7	Nov 13
2009	Apr 8	Oct 19	Mar 5	Nov 28
2008	Apr 16	no data	Mar 25	no data
2007	May 20	Oct 30	May 20	Nov 9
2006	no data	Oct 14	no data	Nov 4
2005	no data	Oct 27	no data	Nov 18
2004	Mar 24	Nov 9	Mar 23	Nov 15
2003	Mar 31	Nov 10	Mar 8	Nov 26
2002	Apr 7	Nov 2	Mar 23	Nov 19
2001	Apr 19	Oct 18	Mar 28	Oct 28
2000	Mar 18	Oct 9	Mar 13	Nov 18
1999	Mar 28	Oct 25	Mar 16	Nov 4
1998	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 13	Nov 7
1997	Apr 10	Oct 23	Apr 10	Nov 16
1996	Apr 10	Nov 3	Mar 23	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Oct 28	Mar 17	Nov 24
1993	Mar 20	Oct 29	Mar 19	Nov 2
1992	Apr 6	Oct 20	Apr 3	Oct 20
1990	Apr 13	Oct 27	Mar 21	Nov 30
1989	May 8	Nov 16	Mar 10	Nov 16
1988	Mar 27	Oct 12	Mar 16	Nov 28
1987	Apr 4	Oct 9	Apr 1	Oct 23
1985	Apr 10	no data	Apr 10	no data
1984	Apr 11	no data	Mar 12	no data
1983	Apr 21	Oct 29	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	Apr 24	no data	Apr 24	no data
1981	Apr 7	Oct 3	Mar 25	Oct 20
1980	Apr 10	Oct 7	Mar 19	Nov 12
1979	Apr 7	Oct 14	Mar 16	Nov 5
1978	Apr 22	Oct 18	Mar 18	Dec 2
1977	Apr 7	Oct 18	Mar 8	Nov 12
1976	May 9	Oct 19	Mar 23	Oct 28
1975	Apr 13	Oct 31	Mar 9	Nov 15
1974	Apr 10	Oct 3	Apr 10	Oct 21
1973	Apr 14	Nov 6	Mar 23	Nov 10
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	Apr 3	Nov 5	Mar 31	Nov 8
1970	Apr 8	Oct 18	Mar 17	Nov 16
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Mar 28	Oct 24
1968	Mar 26	Oct 27	Mar 24	Nov 14
1967	Mar 23	Oct 29	Mar 19	Nov 5
1966	Mar 29	Nov 3	Mar 29	Nov 4
1965	Apr 3	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 30
1964	Apr 10	Oct 11	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	May 2	Nov 2	Mar 23	Nov 13
1962	Apr 21	Oct 26	Apr 17	Oct 27
1961	Apr 11	Oct 27	Feb 10	Nov 22
1960	Apr 11	Nov 4	Apr 11	Nov 8
1959	Mar 29	Nov 8	Mar 19	Nov 9
1958	Apr 8	Oct 31	Mar 22	Dec 1
1957	Mar 29	Oct 27	Mar 10	Nov 7
1956	Apr 21	no data	Apr 21	no data
1955	Apr 1	Nov 1	Mar 31	Nov 5
1954	Mar 22	Oct 31	Mar 22	Nov 1
1953	Apr 20	Nov 7	Mar 27	Nov 7
1952	Apr 8	Oct 21	Mar 17	Oct 21
1951	Mar 27	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 9

"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.