Tifton, GA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00098703, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 380 ft, 31.446, -83.477. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 10	Nov 21
Earliest	Jan 27 (1990)	Oct 26 (1962)
Latest	Apr 12 (2007)	Dec 26 (2001)
Trend	0.5 days earlier per decade	1.8 days later per decade
Years with data	69	67, 2 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 21 and the median first fall date is Dec 2.

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	Feb 24	Nov 11	Feb 23	Nov 11
2024	Feb 22	Nov 30	Feb 21	Dec 2
2023	Mar 22	no data	Jan 29	no data
2022	Mar 15	no data	Mar 14	no data
2021	Apr 5	Nov 24	Feb 21	Nov 24
2020	no data	Dec 1	no data	Dec 1
2019	Mar 8	no data	Mar 8	no data
2018	Mar 17	no data	Jan 31	no data
2017	Mar 17	Dec 10	Mar 17	Dec 11
2016	Mar 6	Dec 10	Feb 14	none
2015	Feb 21	Nov 24	Feb 21	none
2014	Mar 27	Nov 18	Mar 1	Nov 19
2013	Mar 28	Nov 14	Mar 5	Nov 28
2012	Feb 13	Nov 25	Feb 13	Nov 25
2011	Mar 12	Nov 11	Feb 13	Nov 11
2010	Mar 8	Nov 5	Mar 6	Dec 2
2009	no data	Dec 5	no data	none
2007	Apr 12	Nov 7	Mar 5	Dec 17
2006	Mar 26	no data	Feb 15	no data
2005	Mar 12	Dec 22	Mar 12	Dec 23
2004	Feb 20	no data	Feb 9	no data
2003	no data	Nov 30	no data	Nov 30
2002	Mar 7	Nov 23	Mar 5	none
2001	Feb 7	Dec 26	Jan 27	Dec 26
2000	Feb 7	Nov 20	Feb 6	Nov 20
1999	Feb 23	Dec 1	Jan 10	Dec 25
1998	Mar 13	Dec 18	Mar 13	none
1997	Feb 16	Nov 17	Jan 20	Dec 7
1996	Mar 12	Dec 20	Mar 10	Dec 20
1995	Mar 10	Nov 12	Feb 10	Dec 10
1994	Feb 15	none	Feb 4	none
1993	Mar 16	Nov 1	Mar 16	Nov 2
1992	Mar 12	Nov 29	Mar 2	none
1991	Feb 27	Nov 5	Feb 17	Nov 6
1990	Jan 27	Dec 5	Jan 14	Dec 25
1989	Feb 26	Nov 17	Feb 26	Dec 4
1988	Mar 17	Nov 29	Feb 13	Dec 13
1987	Apr 1	Nov 12	Feb 10	none
1986	Mar 23	none	Mar 2	none
1985	Feb 17	Dec 3	Feb 16	Dec 15
1984	Mar 11	Nov 13	Mar 1	Dec 7
1983	Feb 26	Dec 8	Feb 9	Dec 25
1982	Mar 9	Dec 13	Jan 28	Dec 18
1981	Feb 14	Nov 21	Feb 12	Dec 11
1980	Mar 4	Nov 20	Mar 4	Dec 26
1979	Feb 20	Nov 30	Feb 20	Nov 30
1978	Mar 6	no data	Mar 6	no data
1977	Mar 1	Nov 13	Feb 21	Dec 7
1976	no data	Nov 6	no data	Nov 9
1975	Mar 10	Nov 15	Feb 9	Dec 11
1974	Mar 1	Nov 26	Feb 28	Dec 10
1973	Feb 18	Nov 30	Feb 18	Dec 11
1972	Mar 6	Nov 24	Feb 21	Dec 17
1971	Mar 21	Nov 22	Mar 4	Nov 22
1970	Mar 14	Nov 17	Feb 27	Nov 17
1969	Mar 28	Nov 15	Mar 12	Nov 15
1968	no data	Nov 13	no data	Nov 21
1967	Feb 28	Nov 7	Feb 27	Nov 9
1966	Mar 8	Nov 3	Mar 7	Nov 3
1965	Mar 22	Nov 30	Feb 26	Nov 30
1964	Mar 31	Nov 22	Feb 28	Dec 1
1963	Feb 28	Nov 3	Feb 28	Nov 14
1962	Mar 18	Oct 26	Mar 7	Dec 7
1961	Feb 11	Dec 21	Jan 29	Dec 26
1960	Mar 22	Dec 1	Mar 7	Dec 3
1959	Mar 13	Nov 19	Feb 21	Nov 29
1958	Mar 22	Nov 20	Feb 22	Dec 12
1957	Mar 10	Oct 28	Mar 10	Dec 1
1956	Mar 21	Nov 10	Jan 18	Nov 23
1955	Mar 29	Nov 29	Mar 28	Nov 29
1954	Mar 17	Oct 31	Jan 14	Nov 3
1953	Feb 19	Dec 15	Feb 18	Dec 17
1952	Mar 17	Oct 30	Jan 31	Dec 15
1951	Mar 16	Nov 8	Feb 9	Nov 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.