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 frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 24 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Mar 6 (2019) | Oct 19 (2009) |
| Latest | Apr 20 (2001) | Dec 1 (2020) |
| Trend | 5.2 days earlier per decade | 2.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 20 |
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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 14 | Mar 13 | Dec 19 |
| 2021 | Apr 3 | Nov 24 | Feb 18 | Nov 24 |
| 2020 | Mar 8 | Dec 1 | Mar 1 | Dec 2 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Mar 9 | Nov 11 | Feb 3 | Nov 28 |
| 2011 | Mar 13 | no data | Feb 14 | no data |
| 2010 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 8 | no data |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 | Mar 5 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 | Mar 26 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 11 | Nov 7 | Apr 9 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | Mar 28 | Oct 24 | Mar 27 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Mar 20 | no data | Mar 18 | no data |
| 2004 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 | Mar 24 | Dec 14 |
| 2003 | Apr 1 | Nov 25 | Mar 31 | Nov 26 |
| 2002 | Mar 24 | Nov 18 | Mar 24 | Nov 18 |
| 2001 | Apr 20 | Oct 27 | Mar 9 | Dec 21 |
| 2000 | Apr 10 | Nov 15 | Mar 14 | Nov 15 |
| 1999 | Mar 29 | Nov 3 | Mar 14 | Dec 1 |
| 1998 | Mar 24 | Nov 22 | Mar 14 | Dec 18 |
| 1997 | Mar 18 | Nov 15 | Feb 17 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 12 | Nov 3 | Mar 24 | Nov 10 |
| 1995 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 | Mar 12 | Nov 9 |
| 1994 | Mar 18 | Nov 24 | Mar 18 | Nov 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.