Asheville, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013872, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,238 ft, 35.595, -82.557. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 10	Oct 27
Earliest	Mar 17 (2011)	Oct 3 (1974)
Latest	May 10 (2020)	Dec 2 (1985)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	74	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.

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
2024	Apr 7	Nov 21	Mar 19	Nov 30
2023	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 1
2022	Apr 10	Oct 18	Mar 13	Nov 13
2021	Apr 22	Nov 6	Apr 3	Nov 14
2020	May 10	Nov 2	Mar 8	Dec 1
2019	Apr 3	Nov 1	Apr 1	Nov 12
2018	Apr 17	Oct 22	Apr 8	Nov 11
2017	Mar 20	Oct 29	Mar 17	Nov 27
2016	Apr 10	Nov 20	Mar 3	Nov 22
2015	Apr 5	Oct 19	Mar 29	Nov 23
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 3
2013	Mar 29	Oct 25	Mar 29	Oct 26
2012	Apr 12	Oct 30	Mar 6	Nov 14
2011	Mar 17	Oct 22	Feb 13	Nov 12
2010	Mar 22	Nov 6	Mar 7	Nov 7
2009	Apr 8	Oct 19	Mar 5	Dec 6
2008	Apr 30	Oct 29	Mar 25	Nov 17
2007	Apr 10	Oct 30	Apr 10	Nov 8
2006	Mar 27	Oct 14	Mar 27	Oct 24
2005	Apr 24	Oct 27	Mar 18	Nov 17
2004	May 4	Nov 9	Mar 23	Nov 15
2003	Apr 10	Nov 10	Apr 1	Nov 24
2002	Apr 6	Nov 2	Mar 28	Nov 18
2001	Apr 19	Oct 8	Apr 17	Oct 18
2000	Apr 9	Oct 10	Mar 14	Nov 18
1999	Mar 28	Oct 25	Mar 28	Oct 25
1998	Apr 11	Oct 23	Mar 14	Nov 7
1997	Apr 18	Oct 23	Apr 10	Nov 5
1996	Apr 10	Nov 2	Apr 10	Nov 3
1995	Apr 3	Oct 30	Mar 10	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 25
1993	Apr 3	Oct 23	Mar 19	Nov 2
1992	Apr 29	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 16
1991	Mar 31	Oct 8	Mar 10	Nov 4
1990	Apr 13	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 30
1989	May 8	Oct 20	Mar 2	Nov 16
1988	Mar 19	Oct 8	Mar 17	Oct 13
1987	Apr 5	Oct 9	Apr 4	Oct 22
1986	Apr 24	Nov 13	Apr 23	Nov 13
1985	Apr 10	Dec 2	Apr 10	Dec 2
1984	Apr 2	Nov 7	Mar 12	Nov 7
1983	Apr 21	Nov 5	Apr 21	Nov 14
1982	Apr 11	Oct 26	Apr 7	Nov 5
1981	Apr 7	Oct 20	Mar 20	Oct 20
1980	Apr 17	Nov 6	Mar 15	Nov 19
1979	Mar 27	Oct 14	Mar 26	Nov 15
1978	Apr 21	Oct 9	Mar 18	Dec 10
1977	Apr 7	Oct 18	Mar 8	Nov 13
1976	Apr 27	Oct 18	Mar 18	Oct 28
1975	Apr 13	Oct 31	Apr 4	Nov 14
1974	Apr 9	Oct 3	Mar 25	Oct 4
1973	Apr 14	Nov 6	Apr 12	Nov 10
1972	Apr 26	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 20
1971	Apr 7	Nov 5	Mar 26	Nov 5
1970	Apr 8	Oct 17	Mar 17	Nov 17
1969	Mar 31	Oct 18	Mar 31	Nov 14
1968	Apr 12	Oct 5	Mar 25	Oct 30
1967	Mar 23	Oct 20	Mar 19	Oct 29
1966	Apr 10	Nov 2	Mar 29	Nov 3
1965	Mar 22	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 30
1964	Apr 10	Oct 7	Apr 1	Nov 21
1963	Apr 16	Oct 31	Mar 23	Nov 3
1962	Apr 21	Oct 24	Mar 18	Oct 27
1961	Apr 11	Oct 27	Mar 11	Oct 27
1960	Apr 11	Nov 4	Apr 11	Nov 8
1959	Apr 14	Nov 3	Mar 19	Nov 7
1958	Mar 22	Oct 31	Mar 22	Nov 11
1957	Apr 15	Oct 21	Mar 21	Oct 29
1956	Apr 21	Nov 9	Mar 25	Nov 10
1955	Mar 31	Oct 17	Mar 28	Nov 5
1954	Mar 22	Oct 20	Mar 22	Oct 31
1953	Apr 22	Oct 31	Mar 9	Nov 7
1952	Apr 8	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 21
1951	Apr 18	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 3

"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.