Last Frost Day

Frost history / Hemingway 8 Ese, SC

Hemingway 8 Ese, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00384111, 2004 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 40 ft, 33.679, -79.381. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 27Nov 8
EarliestMar 6 (2009)Oct 25 (2006)
LatestApr 10 (2007)Nov 28 (2009)
Trend3.9 days later per decade6.5 days later per decade
Years with data1010

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 28.

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 1520102005: Mar 102006: Mar 272007: Apr 102008: Mar 262009: Mar 62010: Mar 92012: Mar 62013: Mar 302014: Mar 272015: Mar 30

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 1120102004: Nov 152006: Oct 252007: Nov 82008: Oct 292009: Nov 282010: Nov 82012: Nov 12013: Nov 132014: Nov 32015: Nov 24

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
2015Mar 30Nov 24Mar 8Dec 20
2014Mar 27Nov 3Mar 27Nov 15
2013Mar 30Nov 13Mar 28Nov 14
2012Mar 6Nov 1Feb 14Nov 25
2010Mar 9Nov 8Mar 8Dec 2
2009Mar 6Nov 28Mar 6Dec 21
2008Mar 26Oct 29Feb 28Nov 19
2007Apr 10Nov 8Apr 8Nov 17
2006Mar 27Oct 25Feb 28Dec 5
2005Mar 10no dataMar 10no data
2004no dataNov 15no dataDec 15

"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.