Tarboro 1 S, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00318500, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 35 ft, 35.884, -77.539. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 31	Nov 3
Earliest	Mar 8 (2010)	Oct 4 (1974)
Latest	May 11 (1966)	Dec 2 (2024)
Trend	2.0 days earlier per decade	2.0 days later per decade
Years with data	74	73

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 15.

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
2024	Mar 26	Dec 2	Feb 9	Dec 2
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 29
2022	Mar 30	Oct 21	Mar 16	Nov 18
2021	Apr 4	Nov 16	Mar 8	Nov 24
2020	Mar 9	Nov 18	Mar 2	Dec 3
2019	Mar 27	Nov 9	Mar 8	Nov 13
2018	Mar 28	Nov 11	Mar 23	Nov 29
2017	Mar 25	Oct 28	Mar 18	Dec 13
2016	Apr 11	Nov 13	Apr 6	Nov 22
2015	Mar 30	Nov 23	Mar 30	Nov 24
2014	Mar 28	Nov 3	Mar 28	Nov 15
2013	Mar 30	Oct 26	Mar 23	Nov 14
2012	Mar 12	Nov 4	Mar 7	Nov 4
2011	Mar 30	Oct 30	Mar 3	Dec 19
2010	Mar 8	Nov 28	Mar 7	Dec 2
2009	Mar 23	Nov 7	Mar 6	Dec 12
2008	Mar 11	Oct 30	Mar 1	Nov 19
2007	Apr 11	Nov 7	Apr 9	Nov 17
2006	Mar 23	Nov 4	Mar 10	Dec 5
2005	Mar 18	Nov 12	Mar 10	Nov 19
2004	Apr 7	Nov 10	Mar 24	Dec 15
2003	Mar 12	Nov 30	Feb 18	Dec 3
2002	Apr 8	Nov 19	Mar 25	Nov 28
2001	Mar 29	Oct 29	Mar 28	Nov 22
2000	Mar 15	Nov 15	Feb 4	Nov 20
1999	Mar 17	no data	Mar 9	no data
1998	Mar 13	Nov 7	Mar 13	Dec 18
1997	Apr 11	Nov 17	Feb 19	Nov 17
1996	Apr 10	Nov 3	Mar 14	Nov 12
1995	Apr 3	Nov 5	Mar 13	Nov 9
1994	Mar 19	Nov 12	Mar 12	Nov 24
1993	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 21	Dec 12
1992	Apr 6	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 16
1991	Mar 16	Nov 5	Mar 13	Nov 6
1990	Apr 20	Oct 21	Apr 9	Oct 27
1989	Apr 13	Nov 17	Apr 12	Nov 17
1988	Apr 20	Oct 9	Mar 22	Oct 14
1987	Apr 1	Oct 22	Mar 17	Nov 7
1986	Mar 29	Oct 20	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Nov 9	Apr 10	Dec 3
1984	Apr 2	Nov 7	Mar 11	Nov 15
1983	Apr 21	Oct 28	Mar 26	Nov 5
1982	Apr 10	Oct 17	Apr 7	Nov 6
1981	Apr 22	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
1980	Mar 23	Oct 27	Mar 15	Nov 13
1979	Mar 27	Nov 4	Mar 18	Nov 4
1978	Mar 18	Oct 9	Mar 6	Nov 26
1977	Apr 10	Oct 18	Mar 8	Nov 12
1976	Apr 13	Oct 18	Apr 13	Oct 22
1975	Apr 6	Oct 31	Mar 10	Nov 15
1974	Apr 7	Oct 4	Mar 15	Oct 22
1973	Apr 16	Oct 18	Apr 12	Nov 7
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 9	Nov 22
1971	Mar 31	Nov 8	Mar 27	Nov 8
1970	Apr 8	Oct 18	Mar 17	Nov 22
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Mar 28	Nov 15
1968	Mar 27	Oct 27	Mar 25	Nov 14
1967	Apr 13	Oct 29	Mar 20	Nov 6
1966	May 11	Oct 31	Mar 29	Nov 4
1965	Apr 3	Oct 26	Mar 22	Oct 30
1964	Apr 26	Oct 12	Apr 2	Nov 22
1963	Apr 16	Nov 4	Mar 23	Nov 4
1962	Apr 18	Oct 25	Mar 19	Oct 27
1961	Apr 21	Oct 27	Mar 18	Oct 28
1960	Apr 11	Nov 8	Mar 23	Nov 8
1959	Mar 29	Nov 18	Mar 29	Nov 18
1958	Mar 16	Nov 22	Feb 23	Nov 22
1957	Mar 11	Oct 28	Feb 22	Nov 11
1956	Apr 21	Nov 10	Mar 25	Nov 23
1955	Mar 31	Nov 5	Mar 28	Nov 6
1954	Mar 22	Nov 3	Mar 22	Nov 4
1953	Mar 27	Nov 7	Feb 18	Nov 27
1952	Mar 17	Oct 21	Mar 16	Oct 30
1951	Mar 27	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 10

"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.