Last Frost Day

Frost history / Yanceyville 4 Se, NC

Yanceyville 4 Se, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00319704, 1997 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 635 ft, 36.377, -79.255. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 31Oct 24
EarliestMar 12 (2012)Oct 3 (2003)
LatestApr 18 (2001)Nov 8 (2004)
Trend5.7 days earlier per decade9.8 days later per decade
Years with data1412

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30200020101997: Apr 181998: Mar 251999: Mar 232000: Mar 192001: Apr 182002: Apr 72003: Apr 12004: Apr 72005: Mar 222006: Apr 102007: Apr 112011: Mar 302012: Mar 122013: Mar 30

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26200020101997: Oct 231998: Oct 231999: Oct 252000: Oct 92001: Oct 82002: Nov 12003: Oct 32004: Nov 82005: Oct 272006: Oct 152011: Oct 312012: Nov 6

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2013Mar 30no dataMar 30no data
2012Mar 12Nov 6Mar 7Nov 25
2011Mar 30Oct 31Mar 8Nov 12
2007Apr 11no dataApr 9no data
2006Apr 10Oct 15Mar 24Nov 4
2005Mar 22Oct 27Mar 19Nov 18
2004Apr 7Nov 8Mar 24Nov 15
2003Apr 1Oct 3Mar 12Nov 25
2002Apr 7Nov 1Apr 7Nov 23
2001Apr 18Oct 8Mar 29Nov 13
2000Mar 19Oct 9Mar 18Nov 18
1999Mar 23Oct 25Mar 16Nov 17
1998Mar 25Oct 23Mar 23Nov 7
1997Apr 18Oct 23Apr 11Nov 5

"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.