Last Frost Day

Frost history / Greenwood 8NE, SC

Greenwood 8NE, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00383758, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 530 ft, 34.252, -82.035. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 19Nov 10
EarliestFeb 28 (2016)Oct 19 (2022)
LatestApr 18 (2018)Dec 2 (2020)
Trend1.1 days later per decade1.2 days later per decade
Years with data1616

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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202010: Mar 82011: Mar 132012: Mar 72013: Mar 302014: Mar 282015: Mar 302016: Feb 282017: Mar 182018: Apr 182019: Mar 212020: Mar 92021: Apr 22022: Mar 142023: Mar 222024: Mar 202025: Mar 4

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202010: Nov 72011: Nov 112012: Nov 252013: Oct 262014: Nov 12015: Nov 232016: Nov 212017: Oct 312018: Nov 112019: Nov 92020: Dec 22021: Nov 102022: Oct 192023: Nov 32024: Nov 302025: Nov 11

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
2025Mar 4Nov 11Feb 23Nov 11
2024Mar 20Nov 30Feb 9Nov 30
2023Mar 22Nov 3Feb 5Dec 15
2022Mar 14Oct 19Mar 14Nov 21
2021Apr 2Nov 10Feb 21none
2020Mar 9Dec 2Mar 2Dec 2
2019Mar 21Nov 9Mar 7Nov 13
2018Apr 18Nov 11Feb 3Nov 28
2017Mar 18Oct 31Mar 17Dec 14
2016Feb 28Nov 21Feb 15Dec 9
2015Mar 30Nov 23Mar 8none
2014Mar 28Nov 1Mar 27Nov 15
2013Mar 30Oct 26Mar 28Nov 13
2012Mar 7Nov 25Feb 14Nov 25
2011Mar 13Nov 11Feb 14Dec 29
2010Mar 8Nov 7Mar 8Dec 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.