Frost history / Jocassee 8 Wnw, SC
Jocassee 8 Wnw, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00384581, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,540 ft, 34.986, -83.071. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 24 | Oct 18 |
| Earliest | Apr 6 (2015) | Oct 2 (2011) |
| Latest | May 20 (2009) | Nov 6 (2004) |
| Trend | 3.9 days earlier per decade | 1.7 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 19 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 and the median first fall date is Oct 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)
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 | Apr 14 | Oct 20 | Apr 14 | Nov 3 |
| 2024 | Apr 24 | Oct 15 | Apr 8 | Oct 17 |
| 2023 | Apr 26 | Oct 17 | Apr 12 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 21 | Oct 18 | Apr 20 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | Oct 18 | Apr 23 | Nov 7 |
| 2020 | May 12 | Oct 18 | May 10 | Nov 3 |
| 2019 | Apr 16 | Oct 18 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | May 1 | Oct 21 | Apr 21 | Oct 22 |
| 2017 | Apr 10 | Oct 18 | Mar 21 | Oct 30 |
| 2016 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 | Apr 11 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 | Apr 6 | Oct 18 |
| 2014 | May 17 | Oct 5 | Apr 18 | Oct 5 |
| 2012 | Apr 14 | Nov 1 | Apr 14 | Nov 1 |
| 2011 | May 6 | Oct 2 | May 6 | Oct 2 |
| 2010 | Apr 19 | Oct 6 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | May 20 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 |
| 2008 | May 1 | Oct 19 | Apr 30 | Oct 29 |
| 2006 | Apr 11 | Oct 14 | Apr 10 | Oct 14 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Oct 23 | Apr 17 | Oct 27 |
| 2004 | no data | Nov 6 | no data | Nov 9 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.