Last Frost Day

Frost history / Fountain Inn 2 Sw, SC

Fountain Inn 2 Sw, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00383145, 2014 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 830 ft, 34.675, -82.227. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 9Nov 3
EarliestMar 20 (2024)Oct 19 (2022)
LatestApr 22 (2021)Nov 15 (2015)
Trend11.8 days earlier per decade9.8 days earlier per decade
Years with data1010

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 3020202015: Mar 302016: Apr 102017: Apr 82018: Apr 182019: Apr 32020: Apr 112021: Apr 222022: Apr 112023: Mar 212024: Mar 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2620202014: Nov 12015: Nov 152016: Nov 112017: Oct 302018: Nov 112019: Nov 32020: Nov 32021: Nov 142022: Oct 192023: Nov 2

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2024Mar 20no dataMar 20no data
2023Mar 21Nov 2Mar 21Nov 2
2022Apr 11Oct 19Mar 14Oct 19
2021Apr 22Nov 14Apr 3Nov 24
2020Apr 11Nov 3Mar 2Dec 2
2019Apr 3Nov 3Mar 7Nov 10
2018Apr 18Nov 11Apr 17Nov 16
2017Apr 8Oct 30Mar 17Nov 20
2016Apr 10Nov 11Feb 28Nov 20
2015Mar 30Nov 15Mar 30Nov 15
2014no dataNov 1no dataNov 2

"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.