Columbus #2, GA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00092159, 1999 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 435 ft, 32.518, -84.938. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 13	Nov 16
Earliest	Feb 15 (2011)	Oct 14 (2007)
Latest	Apr 9 (2009)	Dec 6 (2009)
Trend	0.9 days later per decade	1.0 days earlier per decade
Years with data	14	19

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 26.

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
2025	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 11
2023	Mar 22	no data	Jan 30	no data
2022	Mar 15	Nov 13	Mar 14	Nov 18
2021	Apr 5	Nov 13	Feb 21	none
2020	Mar 2	Dec 1	Feb 28	Dec 2
2019	no data	Nov 13	no data	Nov 13
2018	no data	Nov 16	no data	Nov 28
2016	no data	Nov 20	no data	Dec 10
2012	Feb 15	Nov 25	Feb 15	Nov 25
2011	Feb 15	Nov 12	Feb 15	Dec 1
2010	Mar 8	Nov 6	Feb 26	Dec 2
2009	Apr 9	Dec 6	Mar 4	Dec 6
2008	Mar 26	Oct 22	Feb 28	Nov 19
2007	Mar 6	Oct 14	Feb 20	Dec 17
2006	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 26	Nov 13
2005	no data	Nov 17	no data	Nov 17
2004	Mar 12	Dec 2	Feb 19	Dec 15
2003	Mar 31	Nov 25	Jan 28	Nov 25
2002	no data	Nov 23	no data	Nov 29
2000	no data	Nov 21	no data	Nov 22
1999	Mar 4	no data	Feb 22	no data

"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.