Frost history / Long Creek, SC
Long Creek, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00385278, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,625 ft, 34.768, -83.254. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 8 | Oct 29 |
| Earliest | Mar 9 (2020) | Sep 25 (1974) |
| Latest | May 10 (1977) | Nov 27 (2016) |
| Trend | 1.4 days earlier per decade | 2.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 44 | 37 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.
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 21 | Nov 10 | Feb 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2024 | Apr 6 | Nov 22 | Mar 20 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 22 | Nov 1 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 11 | Oct 19 | Mar 14 | Nov 14 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | Nov 14 | Apr 23 | Nov 23 |
| 2020 | Mar 9 | Nov 19 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Mar 23 | Nov 11 | Feb 4 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 | Mar 17 | Dec 10 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Oct 5 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Mar 30 | Oct 24 | Mar 29 | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 2 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 26 | Feb 23 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 23 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 | Mar 5 | Dec 6 |
| 2002 | Apr 7 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 1992 | Apr 29 | no data | Apr 5 | no data |
| 1991 | Mar 15 | no data | Feb 28 | no data |
| 1990 | no data | Nov 18 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1988 | Apr 20 | Oct 8 | Mar 20 | Oct 13 |
| 1987 | Apr 10 | Oct 4 | Apr 6 | Oct 22 |
| 1986 | Apr 23 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 1982 | Apr 24 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1979 | Apr 29 | no data | Mar 26 | no data |
| 1978 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 17 |
| 1977 | May 10 | Oct 14 | Mar 9 | Nov 12 |
| 1975 | Apr 13 | Nov 14 | Mar 9 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Mar 26 | Sep 25 | Mar 22 | Oct 21 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | no data | Apr 11 | no data |
| 1972 | Apr 10 | Oct 20 | Apr 9 | Oct 21 |
| 1971 | Mar 31 | Nov 5 | Mar 27 | Nov 8 |
| 1970 | Apr 3 | Oct 17 | Mar 27 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Mar 31 | Nov 4 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 |
| 1968 | Mar 25 | Oct 5 | Mar 25 | Oct 30 |
| 1967 | Mar 20 | Sep 30 | Mar 19 | Nov 4 |
| 1966 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 | Mar 29 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | Mar 26 | Oct 25 | Mar 23 | Oct 25 |
| 1964 | Apr 8 | Oct 20 | Apr 1 | Nov 22 |
| 1963 | May 2 | Oct 29 | Mar 23 | Nov 3 |
| 1962 | Apr 21 | Oct 25 | Apr 3 | Oct 26 |
| 1961 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 1959 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 19 | no data |
| 1958 | Apr 8 | Nov 11 | Mar 22 | Nov 29 |
| 1955 | Apr 9 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 1954 | Mar 22 | no data | Mar 22 | no data |
| 1953 | Apr 21 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 1952 | Apr 7 | no data | Mar 9 | no data |
| 1951 | Apr 17 | Nov 3 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 |
"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.