Cold/Wind Chill in North Carolina

Events

470

Deaths

9

Injuries

0

Damage

$1.0 million

• Cold in North Carolina, March 8, 19962 deaths · 2 eventsRecord cold was at least partially responsible for the deaths of two mountain residents. A homeless man died in Hendersonville and an elderly man in Transylvania county wandered from his home and died from hypothermia.
• Cold in North Carolina, February 12, 19961 death · 1 eventAn elderly woman fell outside her home and then died from hypothermia.
• Cold in North Carolina, February 4, 19961 death · 1 eventA homeless man on the streets of Charlotte died from exposure/ hypothermia.
• Cold in North Carolina, February 4, 19961 death · 1 eventAn elderly woman fell outside her home sometime during the night and died from exposure/hypothermia.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 11, 19971 death · 1 eventA man died outside his home, at least in part because of exposure to the cold.
• Cold in North Carolina, March 15, 19971 death · 1 eventA woman in Hendersonville succombed partly from the cold weather when she was locked outside a home overnight.
• Cold in North Carolina, December 19 to 20, 20001 death · 1 eventThe bitterly cold weather claimed the life of a 50 year-old male. The man was found outside his home, wearing only a few articles of clothing.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 20, 20081 death · 1 eventCold weather was blamed for the death of a homeless man in northwest Charlotte. The low temperature on the 20th was 23 degrees, while the high the previous day was only 36.
• Cold in North Carolina, March 11 to 14, 1998$350,000 · 17 eventsDamage to strawberry and peach crops caused by several nights with low temperatures in the lower 20s. Some farmers reported 50 to 64 percent of their peach crop was killed.
• Cold in North Carolina, February 3 to 6, 1996$275,000 · 9 eventsExtremely cold air spread into northwest and north-central North Carolina on the 3rd and continued until the 6th. Low temperatures during the early morning hours on the 5th ranged from 8 below zero to 12 below zero in the mountains to zero to 6 below zero east of the mountains.
• Cold in North Carolina, March 8 to 12, 1996$204,000 · 9 eventsRecord breaking low temperatures from the 8th through the 12th severely damaged the peach, nectarine and berry crops and damaged the apple crop.
• Cold in North Carolina, April 9, 1997$100,000 · 1 eventTemperatures in the 20s during the morning hours on the 9th damaged peach and nectarine crops in mainly the western and northern portions of Wilkes County
• Cold in North Carolina, April 10, 1997$100,000 · 1 eventTemperatures in the 20s during the morning hours on the 10th damaged peach and nectarine crops in mainly the western and northern portions of Wilkes County
• Cold in North Carolina, April 1 to 18, 199729 eventsSeveral cold snaps following the relatively warm late winter caused temperatures to dip well into the 20s at times yielding substantial damage to the apple crop and perhaps other crops.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 1 to 7, 201821 eventsA large area of arctic high pressure slowly settled in over western North Carolina in the wake of a cold front that pushed through the area on 12/30, resulting in an extended period of unusually cold weather across the region.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 17 to 18, 201821 eventsA cold arctic air mass built into western North Carolina on the heels of gusty northwest winds developing west of a storm system moving up the Southeast coast.
• Cold in North Carolina, March 16, 201718 eventsThe 2017 growing season began early across western North Carolina, due to an unusually warm February and early March that saw average temperatures of almost 10 degrees above normal.
• Cold in North Carolina, December 23 to 24, 202218 eventsAn arctic cold front swept across the foothills and Piedmont of western North Carolina during the morning of the 23rd and introduced the coldest air mass in more than 5 years.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 20 to 21, 202418 eventsThe second arctic cold front in 4 days brought gusty northwest winds and another shot of very cold air to the southern Appalachians.
• Cold in North Carolina, February 1, 202618 eventsDangerous cold that began during the morning of the 31st across the North Carolina Piedmont and foothills continued through the morning of the 1st.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 7 to 8, 201716 eventsGusty northwest winds ushering in an arctic air mass to the southern Appalachians combined with a snowpacked ground to produce frigid temperatures and low wind chill values across the North Carolina mountains on the night of the 7th through the morning of the 8th.
• Cold in North Carolina, December 25 to 26, 202016 eventsCold air filtering into western North Carolina on the heels of very gusty northwest winds in the wake of an Arctic cold front resulted in widespread temperatures in the teens throughout Christmas night into the morning of the 26th.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 16 to 17, 202416 eventsGusty northwest winds brought very cold air to the southern Appalachians in the wake of an arctic cold front.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 26 to 27, 202616 eventsAn arctic air mass overspread the southern Appalachians in the wake of a strong cold front throughout the 26th and 27th. Widespread air temperatures in the single digits combined with gusty northwest winds to produce wind chill values of 5 to 10 below in the valleys.
• Cold in North Carolina, January 20 to 21, 201915 eventsGusty northwest winds developing in the wake of an arctic cold front ushered in a very cold air mass into the North Carolina mountains throughout the 20th and remained in place into the 21st.

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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.