Tryon, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00318744, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,320 ft, 35.206, -82.252. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 31	Nov 5
Earliest	Feb 13 (2011)	Oct 4 (1974)
Latest	May 11 (1966)	Dec 14 (2004)
Trend	2.8 days earlier per decade	3.7 days later per decade
Years with data	75	75

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.

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	Mar 3	Nov 11	Feb 23	Nov 11
2024	Mar 20	Nov 29	Feb 18	Nov 30
2023	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 29
2022	Mar 14	Nov 14	Mar 14	Dec 24
2021	Apr 4	Nov 20	Apr 4	Nov 20
2020	Mar 1	Dec 1	Feb 23	Dec 2
2019	Apr 2	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Mar 23	Nov 11	Mar 9	Nov 28
2017	Mar 18	Dec 9	Mar 17	Dec 10
2016	Mar 5	Dec 9	Feb 27	Dec 9
2015	Mar 30	Nov 23	Mar 9	none
2014	Apr 17	Nov 1	Mar 27	Nov 15
2013	Mar 27	Nov 13	Mar 22	Nov 13
2012	Mar 6	Nov 25	Feb 13	none
2011	Feb 13	Dec 8	Feb 10	none
2010	Mar 5	Nov 28	Feb 27	Dec 6
2009	Apr 9	Dec 6	Mar 5	Dec 6
2008	Mar 27	Nov 18	Mar 9	Nov 19
2007	Apr 9	Nov 24	Apr 8	Dec 17
2006	Mar 22	Nov 4	Feb 20	Dec 8
2005	Mar 18	Nov 18	Mar 3	Dec 15
2004	Mar 24	Dec 14	Feb 27	Dec 14
2003	Mar 31	Nov 25	Feb 17	Nov 29
2002	Mar 23	Nov 18	Mar 22	Nov 28
2001	Mar 28	Oct 28	Mar 28	Oct 28
2000	Apr 5	Nov 12	Mar 14	Nov 20
1999	May 1	Nov 4	Mar 8	Nov 18
1998	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 23	Nov 22
1997	Apr 10	Oct 23	Mar 17	Nov 18
1996	Mar 24	Nov 4	Mar 23	Nov 4
1995	Apr 3	Nov 5	Mar 11	Nov 5
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 25
1993	Apr 23	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 2
1992	Apr 4	Oct 20	Apr 4	Oct 20
1991	Mar 11	Nov 4	Mar 9	Nov 5
1990	Apr 19	Nov 16	Feb 27	Dec 1
1989	Apr 13	Oct 21	Mar 10	Nov 18
1988	Mar 23	Oct 13	Mar 20	Oct 14
1987	Apr 5	Oct 9	Mar 14	Oct 23
1986	Apr 23	Nov 14	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Nov 9	Apr 10	Dec 3
1984	Apr 2	Nov 8	Mar 12	Nov 21
1983	Apr 20	Nov 8	Mar 26	Nov 14
1982	Apr 24	Nov 7	Apr 7	Nov 7
1981	Apr 7	Oct 20	Mar 20	Nov 13
1980	Mar 19	Oct 26	Mar 19	Nov 20
1979	Mar 26	Oct 27	Mar 17	Nov 30
1978	Mar 18	Oct 18	Mar 18	Dec 10
1977	Apr 7	Nov 12	Mar 2	Nov 13
1976	Mar 24	Oct 19	Mar 18	Oct 28
1975	Mar 9	Nov 1	Mar 9	Nov 26
1974	Apr 7	Oct 4	Mar 14	Oct 21
1973	Apr 14	Nov 10	Feb 24	Nov 11
1972	Apr 26	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	May 4	Nov 5	Apr 3	Nov 8
1970	Apr 8	Nov 17	Mar 24	Nov 17
1969	Apr 1	Oct 24	Mar 28	Nov 14
1968	Apr 12	Oct 5	Mar 26	Nov 14
1967	Apr 28	Oct 29	Mar 20	Nov 8
1966	May 11	Nov 3	Apr 11	Nov 4
1965	Apr 3	Oct 30	Mar 22	Oct 30
1964	Mar 31	Oct 11	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	Mar 24	Nov 3	Mar 8	Nov 3
1962	Apr 21	Oct 25	Apr 21	Oct 26
1961	Apr 20	Oct 28	Mar 3	Oct 28
1960	Apr 11	Oct 25	Apr 11	Nov 8
1959	Mar 29	Nov 8	Mar 19	Nov 8
1958	Mar 22	Oct 30	Mar 16	Dec 1
1957	Mar 17	Nov 7	Feb 23	Nov 11
1956	Mar 25	Nov 11	Mar 22	Nov 23
1955	Apr 1	Nov 18	Mar 31	Nov 29
1954	Mar 22	Oct 31	Mar 15	Nov 1
1953	Apr 22	Nov 7	Feb 19	Nov 26
1952	Mar 25	Oct 21	Mar 9	Oct 21
1951	Mar 31	Nov 4	Mar 17	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.