Frost history / Taylorsville, NC
Taylorsville, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00318519, 1996 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,320 ft, 35.922, -81.172. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 3 | Nov 7 |
| Earliest | Feb 25 (2011) | Oct 19 (2015) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (2021) | Dec 5 (2009) |
| Trend | 9.8 days later per decade | 2.0 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 25 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 13 and the median first fall date is Nov 21.
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 | Oct 26 | Mar 4 | Nov 1 |
| 2024 | Apr 8 | Nov 23 | Mar 20 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Apr 11 | Nov 2 | Mar 22 | Nov 3 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 21 | Mar 15 | Nov 15 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | Nov 5 | Mar 9 | Nov 15 |
| 2020 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 | Mar 9 | Dec 3 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Nov 9 | Mar 21 | Nov 10 |
| 2018 | Apr 21 | Oct 23 | Mar 10 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 24 | Nov 12 | Mar 18 | Nov 21 |
| 2016 | Apr 11 | Nov 13 | Apr 11 | Nov 14 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 19 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Nov 3 | Mar 28 | Nov 4 |
| 2013 | Mar 29 | Oct 25 | Mar 22 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 6 | Nov 7 | Mar 6 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Feb 25 | Nov 11 | Feb 11 | Dec 9 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | no data | Feb 28 | no data |
| 2009 | Mar 4 | Dec 5 | Mar 4 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 26 | Nov 16 | Mar 9 | Nov 18 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Nov 7 | Apr 8 | Nov 26 |
| 2005 | Mar 18 | no data | Mar 4 | no data |
| 2004 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 | Mar 23 | Nov 26 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Dec 22 |
| 2000 | Mar 20 | Nov 15 | Mar 14 | Nov 18 |
| 1999 | Mar 18 | Oct 25 | Mar 12 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 24 | Nov 7 | Mar 13 | Dec 15 |
| 1997 | Apr 11 | no data | Feb 16 | no data |
| 1996 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | 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.