Laurens, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00385017, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 589 ft, 34.499, -82.022. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 7	Oct 30
Earliest	Mar 7 (2025)	Oct 4 (1974)
Latest	May 8 (1989)	Nov 23 (1994)
Trend	1.1 days earlier per decade	1.1 days later per decade
Years with data	66	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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 7	Nov 11	Mar 3	Nov 11
2024	Mar 20	Nov 22	Feb 25	Nov 30
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 14	Nov 17
2021	Apr 4	Nov 14	Mar 8	Nov 23
2020	Mar 9	Nov 3	Mar 9	Dec 2
2019	Mar 21	Nov 4	Mar 8	Nov 13
2018	Apr 18	Nov 11	Mar 13	Nov 27
2017	Mar 20	Oct 30	Mar 17	Nov 20
2016	Apr 11	Nov 20	Feb 28	Nov 20
2015	Mar 30	Nov 15	Mar 30	Nov 23
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 28	Nov 3
2013	Mar 30	Oct 26	Mar 30	Nov 13
2012	Mar 11	Nov 1	Mar 6	Nov 25
2011	Mar 12	Oct 30	Mar 12	Nov 11
2010	no data	Nov 7	no data	Dec 2
2009	Apr 8	Oct 19	Mar 6	Dec 6
2008	Apr 17	Oct 28	Mar 26	Nov 11
2007	Apr 10	Oct 30	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Mar 28	Oct 14	Mar 27	Oct 24
2005	Mar 20	Nov 11	Mar 18	Nov 18
2004	Mar 24	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 15
2003	Mar 31	Nov 14	Mar 31	Nov 26
2002	Apr 8	Nov 14	Mar 25	Nov 23
2001	no data	Oct 17	no data	Oct 27
2000	Apr 9	Oct 9	Apr 9	Nov 15
1999	Apr 18	Oct 23	Mar 29	Nov 3
1998	Apr 4	Oct 22	Mar 22	Oct 24
1997	Apr 18	Oct 22	Apr 17	Oct 27
1996	Apr 11	Oct 12	Mar 23	Oct 19
1995	Apr 24	Nov 4	Mar 11	Nov 4
1994	Apr 2	Nov 23	Mar 18	Nov 23
1993	Apr 28	Oct 12	Apr 3	Nov 2
1992	Apr 6	Oct 19	Apr 3	Oct 20
1991	no data	Oct 7	no data	Nov 4
1990	Apr 13	Oct 27	Mar 21	Oct 27
1989	May 8	Oct 20	Feb 26	Nov 17
1988	Mar 28	Oct 13	Mar 18	Oct 14
1987	Apr 6	Oct 4	Apr 1	Oct 23
1986	Apr 24	Nov 14	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Nov 9	Apr 10	Nov 9
1984	Mar 31	Nov 7	Mar 12	Nov 7
1983	Apr 26	Nov 6	Apr 26	Nov 14
1982	Apr 24	Oct 26	Apr 8	Nov 5
1981	Mar 26	Oct 20	Mar 24	Oct 20
1980	no data	Oct 26	no data	Nov 19
1976	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 29
1974	Apr 10	Oct 4	Mar 18	Oct 22
1973	Apr 14	Nov 10	Apr 11	Nov 10
1972	Apr 10	Oct 20	Apr 9	Nov 24
1971	Apr 8	Nov 5	Apr 3	Nov 8
1970	Apr 8	Nov 16	Mar 17	Nov 16
1969	Mar 28	Nov 4	Mar 28	Nov 15
1968	Mar 26	Oct 29	Mar 25	Oct 30
1967	Mar 23	no data	Mar 20	no data
1966	Apr 11	Nov 3	Apr 7	Nov 4
1965	Mar 27	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 25
1964	Apr 1	Oct 12	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	May 2	Oct 30	Mar 23	Nov 3
1962	Apr 20	Oct 25	Mar 18	Oct 26
1961	Apr 14	no data	Feb 11	no data
1960	Apr 11	Oct 25	Apr 11	Nov 20
1959	Apr 15	Nov 8	Mar 19	Nov 18
1958	Mar 29	Oct 29	Mar 22	Nov 20
1957	Apr 10	Oct 29	Mar 10	Oct 29
1956	Mar 25	Nov 10	Mar 25	Nov 10
1955	Apr 1	Oct 26	Mar 30	Nov 1
1954	Mar 22	Oct 17	Mar 22	Oct 31
1953	Apr 21	Nov 7	Apr 21	Nov 7
1952	Mar 16	Oct 21	Feb 6	Oct 29
1951	Mar 22	Nov 3	Mar 14	Nov 4

"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.