Shelby 2 Nw, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00317845, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 820 ft, 35.311, -81.571. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 11	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 11 (1991)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	May 11 (2020)	Nov 13 (2003)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	69	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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	Apr 14	Nov 1	Mar 12	Nov 11
2024	Apr 8	Oct 17	Mar 13	Nov 29
2023	Apr 12	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Apr 21	Oct 19	Apr 11	Oct 19
2021	Apr 24	Nov 5	Apr 23	Nov 14
2020	May 11	Nov 3	Apr 12	Nov 3
2019	Apr 4	Nov 1	Apr 2	Nov 9
2018	Apr 20	Oct 22	Apr 18	Nov 11
2017	Apr 10	Oct 30	Mar 21	Nov 17
2016	Apr 11	Nov 6	Apr 10	Nov 11
2015	Apr 5	Oct 18	Mar 30	Nov 15
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Apr 16	Nov 2
2013	Mar 30	Oct 24	Mar 29	Oct 26
2012	Apr 13	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 9
2011	Apr 6	Oct 30	Mar 12	Nov 18
2010	Mar 31	Nov 6	Mar 8	Nov 7
2009	Mar 22	Oct 19	Mar 5	Oct 19
2008	Apr 15	Oct 29	Mar 25	Oct 29
2007	Apr 9	Oct 29	Apr 8	Nov 6
2006	Mar 27	Oct 13	Mar 26	Oct 23
2005	Mar 19	Oct 26	Mar 17	Oct 29
2004	Apr 14	Nov 8	Mar 22	Nov 14
2003	Mar 31	Nov 13	Mar 7	Nov 24
2002	Apr 6	Nov 1	Mar 22	Nov 1
2001	Apr 19	Oct 6	Mar 27	Oct 27
2000	Apr 9	Oct 8	Mar 13	Oct 9
1999	Apr 17	Oct 24	Mar 26	Oct 24
1996	Apr 11	no data	Apr 11	no data
1995	Apr 25	Oct 22	Mar 10	Nov 5
1994	Apr 9	Oct 27	Mar 12	Nov 25
1993	no data	Oct 13	no data	Nov 2
1992	Apr 6	Oct 20	Apr 3	Oct 20
1991	Mar 11	Oct 7	Mar 11	Nov 5
1990	Apr 12	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 30
1989	May 8	Oct 21	Apr 12	Nov 17
1988	no data	Oct 13	no data	Oct 13
1987	Apr 4	Oct 9	Apr 1	Oct 22
1986	Apr 24	no data	Mar 23	no data
1985	Apr 10	Nov 9	Apr 10	Dec 3
1984	Apr 19	no data	Mar 12	no data
1983	Apr 21	Oct 28	Apr 21	Nov 5
1982	Apr 24	Nov 5	Apr 7	Nov 6
1981	Apr 7	Oct 20	Mar 20	Oct 20
1980	Apr 6	Oct 27	Mar 15	Nov 19
1979	Apr 10	Oct 14	Mar 26	Oct 14
1978	Apr 22	Oct 18	Apr 22	Oct 19
1977	Mar 24	Oct 15	Mar 8	Nov 12
1976	Apr 27	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 22
1975	Apr 13	Oct 31	Mar 15	Nov 15
1974	Apr 25	Oct 3	Mar 22	Oct 3
1973	Apr 14	no data	Apr 11	no data
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	Apr 11	Nov 5	Apr 3	Nov 8
1970	Apr 3	Nov 6	Mar 17	Nov 17
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Mar 28	Nov 15
1966	May 11	Nov 3	Apr 11	Nov 3
1965	Apr 3	Oct 25	Mar 23	Oct 25
1964	Apr 11	Oct 8	Apr 1	Oct 21
1963	May 2	Oct 30	Apr 16	Oct 31
1962	Apr 22	Oct 25	Apr 17	Oct 25
1961	Apr 20	Oct 15	Apr 14	Oct 27
1960	Apr 12	Oct 25	Apr 11	Nov 8
1959	Apr 15	Oct 26	Mar 20	Nov 9
1958	Apr 8	Oct 30	Mar 22	Nov 20
1957	Apr 10	Oct 20	Mar 21	Oct 28
1956	Apr 21	Nov 9	Apr 21	Nov 13
1955	Mar 31	Oct 25	Mar 30	Nov 4
1954	Mar 23	Oct 17	Mar 18	Oct 31
1953	Apr 22	Nov 7	Apr 21	Nov 7
1952	Apr 8	Oct 21	Mar 16	Oct 22
1951	Apr 4	Nov 4	Mar 17	Nov 4

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.