Valdosta 2 S, GA: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00098974, 1955 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 265 ft, 30.806, -83.274. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 11	Nov 10
Earliest	Feb 9 (2004)	Oct 25 (1962)
Latest	Apr 17 (1962)	Dec 21 (2005)
Trend	5.9 days earlier per decade	5.2 days later per decade
Years with data	28	27

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 24 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.

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
2016	Feb 14	no data	Jan 25	no data
2015	Feb 21	Dec 20	Feb 21	none
2014	Feb 15	Nov 18	Jan 30	Nov 19
2013	Mar 5	Nov 28	Feb 19	Nov 28
2012	Feb 14	Nov 25	Feb 13	none
2011	Feb 13	Nov 12	Jan 25	none
2010	Mar 7	Dec 2	Feb 26	Dec 6
2007	Feb 18	no data	Feb 18	no data
2006	Feb 16	Dec 5	Feb 14	Dec 8
2005	Mar 2	Dec 21	Jan 25	Dec 22
2004	Feb 9	Dec 15	Jan 29	Dec 15
2003	no data	Nov 30	no data	Dec 21
1972	Mar 10	no data	Mar 6	no data
1971	Mar 31	Nov 8	Mar 21	Nov 11
1970	Mar 16	Nov 5	Mar 16	Nov 17
1969	Mar 28	Nov 5	Mar 14	Nov 6
1968	no data	Oct 26	no data	Oct 26
1967	Mar 19	Nov 5	Mar 19	Nov 5
1966	Mar 9	Nov 3	Feb 7	Nov 3
1965	Mar 21	Oct 26	Feb 26	Nov 30
1964	Mar 31	Dec 1	Mar 31	Dec 1
1963	Mar 23	Oct 30	Feb 28	Oct 30
1962	Apr 17	Oct 25	Mar 6	Oct 26
1961	Mar 11	Nov 10	Feb 11	Nov 30
1960	Mar 22	Nov 7	Mar 22	Nov 8
1959	Mar 8	Nov 20	Feb 22	Nov 29
1958	Mar 15	Nov 22	Feb 22	Nov 30
1957	Mar 11	Oct 28	Mar 10	Dec 1
1956	Mar 21	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 10
1955	Mar 31	Nov 1	Mar 30	Nov 5

"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.