Frost history / Chesterfield 3 E, SC
Chesterfield 3 E, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00381645, 1999 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 205 ft, 34.727, -80.037. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 6 | Nov 2 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (2025) | Oct 9 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 25 (2005) | Nov 22 (2024) |
| Trend | 5.6 days earlier per decade | 6.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 24 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Mar 19 | Nov 22 | Feb 21 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 10 | Oct 19 | Mar 28 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 14 | Apr 3 | Nov 23 |
| 2020 | Apr 11 | Nov 3 | Mar 8 | Nov 19 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 | Mar 6 | Nov 9 |
| 2018 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 20 | Oct 30 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2016 | Apr 10 | Nov 13 | Apr 10 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Apr 5 | Oct 19 | Mar 29 | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Mar 26 | Nov 2 | Mar 26 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | Mar 29 | Oct 26 | Mar 29 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Apr 13 | Nov 1 | Mar 6 | Nov 23 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 25 | Mar 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2010 | Mar 9 | Nov 7 | Mar 9 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Nov 6 | Mar 5 | Nov 28 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 17 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2006 | Mar 28 | Oct 15 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 |
| 2005 | Apr 25 | Oct 27 | Mar 10 | Nov 11 |
| 2004 | Apr 6 | no data | Apr 5 | no data |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Nov 14 | Mar 8 | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | Nov 2 | Mar 23 | Nov 23 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 18 | Mar 29 | Oct 27 |
| 2000 | Apr 5 | Oct 9 | Mar 14 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | no data | Oct 24 | no data | Nov 4 |
"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.