Frost history / Swanquarter Ferry, NC
Swanquarter Ferry, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00318450, 2013 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3 ft, 35.395, -76.326. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 9 | Nov 26 |
| Earliest | Jan 23 (2024) | Nov 14 (2013) |
| Latest | Mar 30 (2022) | Dec 13 (2017) |
| Trend | 23.7 days earlier per decade | 5.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Dec 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.
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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 | Nov 29 | Mar 4 | Dec 10 |
| 2024 | Jan 23 | Dec 1 | Jan 23 | Dec 1 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 28 | Feb 5 | Nov 30 |
| 2022 | Mar 30 | Nov 19 | Mar 14 | Dec 24 |
| 2021 | Mar 9 | Nov 24 | Feb 22 | none |
| 2020 | Mar 9 | Dec 4 | Feb 23 | Dec 27 |
| 2019 | Mar 8 | Nov 14 | Mar 8 | Dec 21 |
| 2018 | Mar 7 | Nov 29 | Feb 5 | Nov 30 |
| 2017 | Mar 18 | Dec 13 | Mar 17 | Dec 13 |
| 2016 | Mar 6 | Nov 22 | Feb 16 | Dec 10 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Nov 25 | Mar 30 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 2013 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 25 |
"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.