Frost history / Wilmington 7 Se, NC
Wilmington 7 Se, NC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00319461, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 30 ft, 34.142, -77.879. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 13 | Nov 20 |
| Earliest | Feb 9 (2024) | Nov 5 (2023) |
| Latest | Apr 4 (2021) | Dec 17 (2009) |
| Trend | 4.6 days earlier per decade | 5.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 17 | 18 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.
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 3 | Nov 11 | Mar 3 | Nov 29 |
| 2024 | Feb 9 | Nov 30 | Jan 23 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 5 | Feb 5 | none |
| 2022 | Mar 15 | Nov 18 | Mar 14 | Dec 19 |
| 2021 | Apr 4 | Nov 24 | Feb 6 | none |
| 2020 | Mar 8 | Dec 2 | Feb 23 | Dec 9 |
| 2019 | Mar 8 | Nov 13 | Mar 8 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Mar 16 | Nov 28 | Mar 16 | Nov 29 |
| 2017 | Mar 18 | Nov 20 | Mar 18 | Dec 14 |
| 2016 | Feb 28 | Nov 21 | Feb 15 | Dec 10 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 | Mar 8 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | Nov 15 | Mar 28 | Nov 19 |
| 2013 | Mar 30 | Nov 13 | Mar 4 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Mar 7 | Nov 25 | Feb 14 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Mar 13 | Nov 12 | Feb 14 | Dec 19 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Nov 28 | Mar 8 | Dec 3 |
| 2009 | Mar 6 | Dec 17 | Mar 6 | Dec 21 |
| 2008 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | Nov 22 |
"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.