Frost history / Rocky Ford 4SE, GA
Rocky Ford 4SE, GA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00097528, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 160 ft, 32.632, -81.772. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 16 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Feb 14 (2012) | Oct 28 (2008) |
| Latest | Apr 8 (2007) | Dec 10 (2009) |
| Trend | 3.8 days earlier per decade | 2.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 19 | 19 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 27.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 4 | Nov 11 | Feb 22 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Feb 22 | Dec 1 | Jan 23 | Dec 3 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 29 | Jan 17 | Nov 29 |
| 2022 | Mar 15 | Nov 18 | Mar 14 | Dec 19 |
| 2021 | Apr 4 | Nov 24 | Feb 5 | Nov 24 |
| 2020 | Mar 2 | Nov 3 | Feb 23 | Dec 2 |
| 2019 | Mar 20 | Nov 13 | Feb 1 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Mar 16 | Nov 28 | Mar 10 | Dec 6 |
| 2017 | Mar 18 | Nov 20 | Mar 18 | Dec 30 |
| 2014 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 | Mar 1 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 | Mar 5 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Feb 14 | Nov 9 | Feb 14 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Mar 12 | Nov 11 | Feb 13 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 6 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Dec 1 |
| 2009 | Mar 5 | Dec 10 | Mar 5 | none |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Oct 28 | Feb 28 | Nov 18 |
| 2007 | Apr 8 | no data | Apr 8 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Dec 4 | Feb 14 | Dec 4 |
| 2005 | Mar 8 | Nov 17 | Feb 18 | Nov 18 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Dec 14 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.