Chester 1 Se, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00381633, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 560 ft, 34.684, -81.196. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 9	Oct 29
Earliest	Mar 9 (2010)	Oct 4 (1987)
Latest	May 11 (1966)	Dec 6 (1978)
Trend	1.1 days earlier per decade	1.0 days later per decade
Years with data	72	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.

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	Mar 19	Nov 11	Mar 7	Nov 11
2024	Mar 20	Nov 22	Mar 19	Nov 30
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 14	Oct 19
2021	Apr 23	Nov 15	Apr 3	Nov 23
2020	Mar 9	Nov 3	Mar 9	Dec 2
2019	Mar 29	Nov 4	Mar 8	Nov 9
2018	Apr 18	Nov 11	Mar 16	Nov 28
2017	Mar 18	Oct 30	Mar 18	Nov 20
2016	Apr 7	Nov 20	Feb 28	Nov 22
2015	Mar 30	no data	Mar 30	no data
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 28	Nov 4
2013	Mar 30	Oct 26	Mar 30	Oct 26
2012	Apr 13	Nov 7	Mar 7	Nov 25
2011	Apr 7	Oct 30	Mar 13	Nov 18
2010	Mar 9	Nov 7	Mar 8	Dec 2
2009	Apr 9	Oct 19	Mar 6	Dec 2
2008	Mar 26	Oct 28	Mar 26	Nov 18
2007	Apr 10	Nov 7	Apr 9	Nov 8
2006	Mar 28	Oct 24	Mar 27	Nov 4
2005	Apr 26	Oct 25	Mar 20	Oct 30
2004	Apr 16	Nov 6	Apr 6	Nov 15
2003	Apr 1	Nov 11	Mar 31	Nov 14
2002	Mar 28	Nov 2	Mar 24	Nov 18
2001	Apr 20	Oct 17	Apr 19	Oct 28
2000	Apr 11	Oct 9	Apr 10	Oct 10
1999	Apr 19	Oct 24	Mar 28	Oct 26
1998	Mar 24	Oct 23	Mar 23	Nov 7
1997	Apr 18	Oct 28	Apr 2	Nov 16
1996	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 11	Nov 3
1995	Apr 26	Nov 5	Mar 13	Nov 5
1994	Apr 9	Oct 27	Mar 18	Nov 24
1993	Apr 29	Oct 29	Apr 24	Nov 1
1992	Apr 7	Oct 19	Apr 5	Oct 21
1991	Apr 1	Oct 7	Mar 12	Nov 5
1990	Apr 13	Oct 27	Apr 8	Nov 18
1989	May 9	Oct 21	Apr 13	Oct 21
1988	Apr 21	Oct 13	Mar 18	Oct 14
1987	Apr 7	Oct 4	Apr 2	Oct 22
1986	Apr 24	Oct 20	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Dec 3	Mar 19	Dec 3
1984	Mar 12	Nov 7	Mar 11	Nov 13
1983	Apr 21	Nov 12	Apr 20	Nov 14
1982	no data	Nov 6	no data	Dec 13
1981	Mar 25	Nov 13	Mar 20	Nov 21
1980	Mar 13	Nov 12	Mar 4	Nov 19
1979	Mar 26	Nov 15	Mar 26	Nov 30
1978	Mar 18	Dec 6	Mar 18	Dec 10
1977	Mar 23	Nov 11	Mar 2	Nov 13
1976	Mar 18	Oct 28	Feb 24	Oct 29
1975	Apr 4	Nov 1	Mar 9	Nov 15
1974	Apr 10	Oct 21	Feb 27	Oct 22
1973	Apr 11	Nov 10	Feb 22	Nov 10
1972	no data	Oct 20	no data	Nov 24
1971	Apr 3	no data	Mar 27	no data
1970	Mar 27	Nov 16	Mar 17	Nov 16
1969	Mar 28	Oct 24	Mar 27	Nov 15
1968	no data	Oct 29	no data	Nov 13
1967	Mar 19	Oct 29	Mar 19	Nov 7
1966	May 11	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 4
1965	Mar 23	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 25
1964	Apr 10	Oct 8	Apr 1	Oct 21
1963	May 2	Oct 17	May 2	Oct 30
1962	Apr 22	Oct 25	Apr 21	Oct 25
1961	Apr 29	Oct 15	Apr 11	Oct 27
1960	Apr 11	Oct 25	Apr 11	Oct 25
1959	Apr 15	Oct 26	Mar 23	Nov 9
1958	Apr 13	Oct 26	Mar 22	Oct 28
1957	Apr 16	Oct 20	Mar 21	Oct 28
1956	Apr 21	Nov 10	Apr 21	Nov 10
1955	Apr 9	Oct 15	Apr 1	Oct 31
1954	Mar 22	no data	Mar 22	no data
1953	Apr 21	Nov 7	Mar 27	Nov 7
1952	Apr 8	Oct 21	Mar 17	Oct 21
1951	Mar 25	Nov 4	Mar 25	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.