Conway, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00381997, 1951 to 2014, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 20 ft, 33.831, -79.056. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 17	Nov 14
Earliest	Feb 7 (2000)	Oct 12 (1976)
Latest	Apr 26 (1983)	Dec 21 (2009)
Trend	1.3 days earlier per decade	3.7 days later per decade
Years with data	56	55

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 29.

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
2014	Mar 27	no data	Mar 6	no data
2013	Mar 23	Nov 13	Feb 19	Nov 14
2012	Feb 14	Nov 24	Feb 14	Nov 24
2011	Mar 13	Dec 2	Mar 12	none
2010	no data	Dec 2	no data	Dec 6
2009	Mar 6	Dec 21	Mar 5	none
2008	no data	Nov 19	no data	Nov 19
2004	Mar 26	Dec 14	Jan 29	Dec 15
2003	Feb 18	no data	Jan 30	no data
2002	Mar 24	Nov 29	Mar 5	Dec 2
2001	no data	Nov 7	no data	Dec 27
2000	Feb 7	no data	Feb 4	no data
1998	Mar 15	Dec 18	Mar 15	Dec 27
1997	Feb 12	Nov 17	Jan 20	Dec 7
1996	Mar 14	Nov 12	Mar 11	Dec 10
1995	Mar 12	Nov 9	Feb 9	Dec 11
1994	Feb 28	Nov 14	Feb 27	Dec 28
1992	Mar 18	Nov 17	Jan 25	Dec 6
1991	Feb 28	Nov 25	Feb 17	Dec 17
1990	Mar 22	Dec 5	Feb 27	none
1989	Mar 11	Nov 24	Feb 26	Nov 24
1988	Mar 17	Dec 3	Mar 16	Dec 5
1987	Mar 15	Nov 12	Feb 11	Dec 6
1986	Mar 23	Nov 14	Mar 9	none
1985	Apr 10	Dec 4	Feb 17	Dec 15
1984	Mar 10	Nov 13	Feb 10	Nov 21
1983	Apr 26	Nov 14	Apr 20	Dec 25
1982	Apr 7	Nov 7	Jan 29	Dec 13
1981	Mar 21	Nov 8	Feb 14	Nov 22
1980	Mar 5	Oct 28	Mar 4	Dec 5
1979	Mar 17	Nov 15	Feb 21	Nov 16
1978	Mar 18	Dec 10	Mar 6	Dec 11
1977	Mar 1	Nov 12	Feb 22	Nov 14
1976	Apr 10	Oct 12	Feb 10	Oct 30
1975	Mar 10	Nov 15	Mar 5	Nov 15
1974	Mar 15	Nov 14	Feb 28	Nov 29
1973	Feb 21	Nov 10	Feb 19	Nov 11
1972	Apr 10	Nov 23	Feb 24	Nov 24
1971	Mar 27	Nov 9	Feb 15	none
1970	Mar 18	Nov 24	Feb 28	Nov 24
1969	Mar 15	Nov 15	Mar 14	Nov 15
1968	Mar 15	Nov 11	Mar 14	Nov 21
1967	Mar 20	Oct 30	Mar 19	Oct 30
1966	Mar 29	Nov 4	Feb 8	Dec 1
1965	Mar 23	Nov 18	Mar 21	Dec 1
1964	Apr 1	Nov 23	Mar 31	Dec 1
1963	Mar 24	Nov 3	Mar 1	Dec 4
1962	Mar 18	Oct 27	Mar 8	Oct 27
1961	Feb 12	Nov 21	Feb 6	Nov 29
1960	Mar 24	Nov 8	Mar 15	Dec 2
1959	Feb 23	Nov 19	Feb 22	Nov 19
1958	Mar 16	Dec 1	Feb 22	Dec 1
1957	Mar 10	Oct 28	Mar 10	Nov 11
1956	Mar 26	Nov 10	Mar 22	Nov 23
1955	Mar 30	Nov 5	Mar 28	Nov 29
1954	Mar 22	no data	Mar 8	no data
1953	Feb 19	Nov 8	Jan 27	Nov 29
1952	Mar 16	Oct 30	Feb 2	Oct 30
1951	Mar 16	Nov 9	Feb 11	Nov 19

"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.