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Freeze Information for Western North Carolina

Note: Frost can occur even when the recorded low temperature is a few degrees above freezing. Thus, the earliest/average/latest date of the last frost is roughly 14 days later then the spring dates below, and the earliest/average/latest date of the first frost is about 12 days before the fall dates below. Also, deeper valleys will tend to have frost/freezing conditions later in the spring and earlier in the fall than surrounding terrain.

Last Spring Temperature at or below 32 Degrees

City	Earliest	Average	Latest
Asheville	March 20	April 10	May 8
Banner Elk	March 31	May 9	June 11
Boone	April 3	April 30	May 27
Lenoir	March 21	April 14	May 18
Hickory	February 26	April 7	May 8
Jefferson	April 21	May 11	June 6
North Wilkesboro	April 1	April 23	May 18

First Fall/Summer Temperature at or below 32 Degrees

City	Earliest	Average	Latest
Asheville	October 3	October 25	December 2
Banner Elk	September 5	October 3	October 27
Boone	September 11	October 8	November 7
Lenoir	September 30	October 23	November 14
Hickory	October 3	October 30	December 2
Jefferson	September 5	October 5	December 1
North Wilkesboro	September 24	October 17	November 14

Freeze-Free Period

City	Average Number of Days Between Freezes	*Mowing Misery Index (MMI) :-)**
Asheville	198	33.3
Banner Elk	147	26.0
Boone	161	28.0
Lenoir	192	32.4
Hickory	206	34.4
Jefferson	147	26.0
North Wilkesboro	177	30.3

*Mowing Misery Index (MMI): (Freeze-Free Days / 7) + 5. The average number of times you can expect to mow your lawn (assuming you mow once every week and allowing for 2.5 mowings on either side of the freezing season).

The data above is the Ray's Weather Center analysis of NWS Co-Op Weather Station SOD data through 2003 available from the National Climatic Data Center. Results here are similar to but independent of Frost Freeze Data available at www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/documentlibrary/freezefrost/freezefrost.pdf published in 1988.