Darlington, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00382260, 1951 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 150 ft, 34.301, -79.877. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 23	Nov 4
Earliest	Mar 8 (2003)	Oct 4 (1974)
Latest	Apr 24 (1982)	Dec 2 (1978)
Trend	1.2 days earlier per decade	1.6 days later per decade
Years with data	64	64

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 12 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.

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