Frost history / Clinton, SC
Clinton, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00381814, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 655 ft, 34.471, -81.885. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 28 | Nov 11 |
| Earliest | Feb 28 (2016) | Oct 19 (2022) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (2012) | Nov 22 (2024) |
| Trend | 13.9 days earlier per decade | 3.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.
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 4 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Mar 20 | Nov 22 | Feb 25 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 | Mar 16 | Nov 3 |
| 2022 | Apr 10 | Oct 19 | Mar 14 | Nov 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 4 | Nov 20 | Mar 8 | Nov 24 |
| 2020 | Mar 9 | Nov 19 | Mar 2 | Dec 2 |
| 2019 | Mar 21 | Nov 9 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Apr 18 | Nov 11 | Apr 18 | Nov 27 |
| 2017 | Mar 18 | Nov 20 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2016 | Feb 28 | Nov 20 | Feb 27 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Mar 30 | Nov 15 | Mar 30 | Nov 23 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 | Mar 27 | Nov 16 |
| 2013 | Mar 30 | Oct 26 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Apr 24 | Nov 8 | Feb 21 | Dec 22 |
| 2011 | Mar 28 | Nov 7 | Feb 16 | Nov 12 |
"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.