Anderson, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00380165, 1951 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 800 ft, 34.528, -82.661. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 30	Nov 6
Earliest	Feb 28 (2016)	Oct 7 (1991)
Latest	Apr 24 (1986)	Dec 1 (2020)
Trend	2.3 days earlier per decade	2.2 days later per decade
Years with data	62	63

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 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)

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 22	no data	Feb 19	no data
2022	Apr 10	Nov 14	Mar 14	Nov 18
2021	Apr 2	Nov 14	Feb 23	Dec 13
2020	Mar 7	Dec 1	Mar 2	Dec 2
2019	Mar 8	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Mar 24	Nov 11	Mar 9	Nov 28
2017	Mar 17	Nov 20	Mar 17	Dec 10
2016	Feb 28	Nov 21	Feb 16	Dec 9
2015	Mar 30	Nov 23	Feb 21	Nov 23
2014	Mar 27	Nov 2	Mar 27	Nov 4
2013	Mar 30	Nov 13	Mar 28	Nov 13
2012	Mar 6	Nov 25	Feb 14	Nov 25
2011	Mar 8	Nov 18	Feb 12	Dec 29
2010	Mar 11	Nov 8	Mar 6	Dec 6
2009	no data	Dec 1	no data	Dec 6
2008	Mar 26	no data	Mar 9	no data
2004	Mar 23	Nov 15	Feb 20	Nov 26
2003	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 25
2002	Mar 24	Nov 18	Mar 23	Nov 23
1998	Mar 24	Oct 23	Mar 14	Dec 18
1997	no data	Oct 28	no data	Nov 16
1996	Apr 11	no data	Mar 23	no data
1995	Mar 10	no data	Mar 10	no data
1994	Apr 8	Nov 24	Apr 2	Nov 24
1993	Apr 8	Oct 30	Apr 3	Nov 1
1992	Apr 3	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 14
1991	no data	Oct 7	no data	Nov 4
1990	Apr 4	Oct 27	Mar 21	Nov 19
1989	Apr 13	Oct 21	Mar 7	Nov 17
1988	Mar 17	Oct 13	Mar 17	Nov 29
1987	Apr 8	Oct 22	Apr 2	Oct 22
1986	Apr 24	Nov 14	Mar 25	Nov 14
1985	Apr 11	Nov 9	Mar 20	Dec 2
1984	Apr 23	Nov 7	Mar 11	Nov 13
1983	Apr 22	Nov 12	Apr 22	Nov 14
1982	Apr 7	Nov 5	Apr 7	Nov 6
1981	Mar 24	Nov 14	Mar 24	Nov 22
1980	Mar 15	Nov 12	Mar 15	Nov 19
1979	Mar 26	Oct 14	Mar 26	Nov 30
1978	Apr 22	Oct 18	Mar 18	Dec 10
1977	Mar 25	Oct 21	Mar 25	Nov 27
1976	Apr 7	Oct 29	Mar 19	Oct 29
1975	Apr 13	Nov 15	Mar 9	Nov 22
1974	Mar 22	Oct 22	Feb 28	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 6	Mar 22	Nov 11
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 9	Nov 24
1971	Apr 8	Nov 5	Mar 27	Nov 8
1970	Apr 4	Nov 16	Apr 3	Nov 16
1969	Apr 20	Nov 4	Mar 28	Nov 15
1968	Mar 25	Oct 29	Mar 24	Nov 13
1967	Mar 23	Oct 29	Mar 19	Nov 5
1966	Apr 11	Nov 3	Mar 29	Nov 4
1965	Mar 22	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 25
1964	Apr 9	Oct 21	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	Mar 23	Oct 31	Mar 23	Nov 3
1962	Apr 17	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 27
1961	no data	Nov 9	no data	Nov 30
1960	Apr 11	Nov 8	Mar 23	Nov 8
1959	Apr 14	Nov 18	Mar 18	Nov 18
1958	Mar 22	Nov 29	Mar 22	Nov 29
1957	Mar 21	Oct 28	Mar 10	Oct 28
1956	Mar 25	Nov 9	Mar 25	Nov 23
1955	Mar 30	Nov 4	Mar 28	Nov 20
1954	Mar 22	Oct 31	Mar 16	Oct 31
1953	Apr 21	Nov 7	Feb 18	Nov 28
1952	Apr 7	Oct 21	Mar 17	Oct 21
1951	Mar 22	Nov 3	Mar 14	Nov 8

"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.