Last Frost Day

Frost history / Greenville, SC

Greenville, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00383735, 1994 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 960 ft, 34.823, -82.363. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 24Nov 13
EarliestMar 6 (2019)Oct 19 (2009)
LatestApr 20 (2001)Dec 1 (2020)
Trend5.2 days earlier per decade2.0 days later per decade
Years with data2320

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 14 and the median first fall date is Nov 25.

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 302000201020201994: Mar 181995: Mar 121996: Apr 121997: Mar 181998: Mar 241999: Mar 292000: Apr 102001: Apr 202002: Mar 242003: Apr 12004: Mar 242005: Mar 202006: Mar 282007: Apr 112008: Mar 262009: Apr 92010: Mar 242011: Mar 132018: Mar 92019: Mar 62020: Mar 82021: Apr 32022: Mar 13

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201994: Nov 241995: Nov 51996: Nov 31997: Nov 151998: Nov 221999: Nov 32000: Nov 152001: Oct 272002: Nov 182003: Nov 252004: Nov 152006: Oct 242007: Nov 72008: Oct 292009: Oct 192018: Nov 112019: Nov 122020: Dec 12021: Nov 242022: Nov 14

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
2022Mar 13Nov 14Mar 13Dec 19
2021Apr 3Nov 24Feb 18Nov 24
2020Mar 8Dec 1Mar 1Dec 2
2019Mar 6Nov 12Mar 6Nov 12
2018Mar 9Nov 11Feb 3Nov 28
2011Mar 13no dataFeb 14no data
2010Mar 24no dataMar 8no data
2009Apr 9Oct 19Mar 5Dec 6
2008Mar 26Oct 29Mar 26Nov 19
2007Apr 11Nov 7Apr 9Nov 7
2006Mar 28Oct 24Mar 27Dec 5
2005Mar 20no dataMar 18no data
2004Mar 24Nov 15Mar 24Dec 14
2003Apr 1Nov 25Mar 31Nov 26
2002Mar 24Nov 18Mar 24Nov 18
2001Apr 20Oct 27Mar 9Dec 21
2000Apr 10Nov 15Mar 14Nov 15
1999Mar 29Nov 3Mar 14Dec 1
1998Mar 24Nov 22Mar 14Dec 18
1997Mar 18Nov 15Feb 17Nov 16
1996Apr 12Nov 3Mar 24Nov 10
1995Mar 12Nov 5Mar 12Nov 9
1994Mar 18Nov 24Mar 18Nov 24

"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.