Last Frost Day

Frost history / Kite, GA

Kite, GA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00094862, 2005 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 311 ft, 32.713, -82.541. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 23Nov 6
EarliestMar 6 (2009)Oct 13 (2006)
LatestApr 17 (2008)Nov 28 (2009)
Trend2.2 days earlier per decade3.0 days later per decade
Years with data1817

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 18.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202005: Mar 192006: Apr 112007: Apr 92008: Apr 172009: Mar 62010: Mar 72011: Apr 72012: Mar 62013: Mar 282016: Mar 222017: Apr 82018: Mar 232019: Mar 212020: Mar 82021: Apr 32022: Apr 102023: Mar 222024: Mar 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202005: Oct 272006: Oct 132007: Nov 72008: Oct 302009: Nov 282010: Nov 72011: Oct 302012: Nov 92014: Nov 22016: Nov 62017: Nov 202018: Nov 162019: Nov 92020: Nov 32021: Nov 142022: Oct 192023: Nov 2

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 20no dataFeb 21no data
2023Mar 22Nov 2Mar 21Nov 29
2022Apr 10Oct 19Mar 15Nov 18
2021Apr 3Nov 14Apr 3Nov 24
2020Mar 8Nov 3Mar 1Dec 2
2019Mar 21Nov 9Mar 7Nov 13
2018Mar 23Nov 16Mar 9Nov 28
2017Apr 8Nov 20Mar 17Nov 20
2016Mar 22Nov 6Feb 27Nov 21
2014no dataNov 2no dataNov 2
2013Mar 28no dataMar 27no data
2012Mar 6Nov 9Feb 14Nov 9
2011Apr 7Oct 30Mar 12Nov 12
2010Mar 7Nov 7Mar 7Nov 13
2009Mar 6Nov 28Mar 6Dec 6
2008Apr 17Oct 30Mar 26Nov 1
2007Apr 9Nov 7Apr 8Nov 7
2006Apr 11Oct 13Apr 10Nov 4
2005Mar 19Oct 27Mar 9Nov 18

"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.