Wilson 3 Sw, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00319476, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 110 ft, 35.694, -77.946. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 30	Nov 5
Earliest	Feb 22 (2024)	Oct 4 (1974)
Latest	Apr 22 (1991)	Dec 18 (1998)
Trend	2.1 days earlier per decade	2.9 days later per decade
Years with data	71	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 16 and the median first fall date is Nov 18.

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