Batesburg, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00380506, 2011 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 660 ft, 33.900, -81.539. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 19	Nov 18
Earliest	Feb 13 (2011)	Nov 1 (2014)
Latest	Apr 2 (2021)	Dec 14 (2012)
Trend	14.1 days later per decade	2.9 days later per decade
Years with data	13	13

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 17 and the median first fall date is Dec 3.

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
2024	Mar 19	Nov 30	Jan 23	Dec 4
2023	Mar 20	Nov 29	Mar 15	Dec 19
2022	Mar 14	Nov 18	Mar 14	Dec 24
2021	Apr 2	Nov 17	Feb 17	Nov 18
2020	Mar 7	Dec 1	Jan 23	Dec 2
2019	Mar 8	Nov 3	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Mar 23	Nov 16	Jan 31	Nov 28
2017	Mar 18	Nov 27	Mar 17	Dec 10
2016	Mar 21	no data	Feb 15	no data
2015	Mar 29	Nov 22	Feb 21	Dec 19
2014	no data	Nov 1	no data	Nov 15
2013	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 7	Nov 13
2012	Feb 20	Dec 14	Feb 14	Dec 30
2011	Feb 13	Nov 18	Feb 11	none

"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.