Last Frost Day

Frost history / Monroe Ap, NC

Monroe Ap, NC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053872, 1999 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 679 ft, 35.017, -80.621. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 31Nov 2
EarliestMar 5 (2010)Oct 9 (2000)
LatestApr 22 (2021)Nov 22 (2024)
Trend2.0 days earlier per decade5.6 days later per decade
Years with data2526

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 302000201020202000: Apr 52001: Apr 192002: Apr 72003: Mar 312004: Apr 62005: Mar 192006: Mar 262007: Apr 102008: Mar 102009: Apr 82010: Mar 52011: Mar 292012: Apr 122013: Mar 292014: Mar 272015: Mar 292016: Apr 102017: Mar 202018: Apr 172019: Apr 32020: Mar 82021: Apr 222022: Apr 102023: Mar 212024: Mar 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201999: Oct 242000: Oct 92001: Oct 272002: Nov 22003: Nov 142004: Nov 102005: Oct 302006: Oct 242007: Nov 72008: Oct 292009: Oct 192010: Nov 82011: Oct 302012: Nov 72013: Oct 262014: Nov 22015: Nov 152016: Nov 202017: Oct 302018: Nov 112019: Nov 92020: Nov 32021: Nov 142022: Oct 192023: Nov 22024: Nov 22

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
2024Mar 19Nov 22Jan 22Nov 30
2023Mar 21Nov 2Mar 21Nov 29
2022Apr 10Oct 19Mar 13Nov 18
2021Apr 22Nov 14Mar 8Nov 20
2020Mar 8Nov 3Mar 1Dec 1
2019Apr 3Nov 9Mar 6Nov 13
2018Apr 17Nov 11Mar 15Nov 28
2017Mar 20Oct 30Mar 17Nov 20
2016Apr 10Nov 20Feb 27Nov 20
2015Mar 29Nov 15Mar 7Nov 23
2014Mar 27Nov 2Mar 27Nov 15
2013Mar 29Oct 26Mar 22Nov 13
2012Apr 12Nov 7Feb 26Nov 25
2011Mar 29Oct 30Feb 13Nov 18
2010Mar 5Nov 8Mar 5Dec 2
2009Apr 8Oct 19Mar 4Dec 6
2008Mar 10Oct 29Mar 9Nov 18
2007Apr 10Nov 7Apr 8Nov 17
2006Mar 26Oct 24Mar 4Dec 5
2005Mar 19Oct 30Mar 9Nov 18
2004Apr 6Nov 10Mar 23Nov 15
2003Mar 31Nov 14Mar 8Nov 14
2002Apr 7Nov 2Mar 23Nov 28
2001Apr 19Oct 27Mar 28Nov 22
2000Apr 5Oct 9Feb 22Nov 15
1999no dataOct 24no dataNov 4

"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.