Frost history / Jamestown, SC
Jamestown, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00384449, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 35 ft, 33.284, -79.696. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 21 | Nov 20 |
| Earliest | Feb 20 (2024) | Nov 2 (2023) |
| Latest | Apr 4 (2021) | Dec 2 (2020) |
| Trend | 17.4 days earlier per decade | 1.0 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Dec 6.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 3 | Nov 11 | Mar 3 | Nov 28 |
| 2024 | Feb 20 | Nov 30 | Jan 22 | Dec 1 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 | Jan 16 | Dec 20 |
| 2022 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Apr 4 | Nov 24 | Mar 9 | Nov 24 |
| 2020 | Mar 9 | Dec 2 | Mar 2 | Dec 3 |
| 2019 | Mar 8 | Nov 10 | Mar 8 | Dec 19 |
| 2018 | Mar 24 | Nov 28 | Mar 16 | Nov 29 |
| 2017 | Mar 21 | Nov 20 | Mar 18 | Dec 10 |
| 2016 | Feb 28 | Nov 20 | Feb 16 | Dec 10 |
| 2015 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | Dec 20 |
| 2014 | Apr 1 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 2013 | Mar 30 | Nov 9 | Mar 5 | Nov 14 |
| 2011 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 13 | no data |
"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.