Frost history / Donalsonville, GA
Donalsonville, GA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00092738, 2001 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 150 ft, 31.029, -84.891. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 3 | Nov 22 |
| Earliest | Feb 13 (2012) | Nov 6 (2010) |
| Latest | Mar 25 (2008) | Dec 19 (2015) |
| Trend | 1.6 days later per decade | 0.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 14 | 19 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.
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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Mar 20 | no data | Jan 16 | no data |
| 2022 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Dec 24 |
| 2021 | Feb 22 | Nov 24 | Jan 17 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 | Jan 22 | Dec 2 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Nov 13 | none | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Mar 15 | Nov 28 | Jan 19 | none |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Dec 10 | Jan 9 | none |
| 2016 | Feb 27 | Nov 20 | Jan 24 | none |
| 2015 | Feb 21 | Dec 19 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2014 | Feb 28 | Nov 15 | Jan 31 | Nov 19 |
| 2013 | no data | Nov 28 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Feb 14 | Nov 12 | Jan 24 | Nov 12 |
| 2010 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 | Feb 26 | Dec 8 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Nov 18 | Feb 28 | Nov 18 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | none |
| 2006 | no data | Dec 5 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 2004 | no data | Dec 15 | no data | Dec 15 |
| 2002 | Mar 5 | Nov 22 | Mar 4 | none |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 20 | no data | Dec 25 |
"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.