Orangeburg 2, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00386527, 1953 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 185 ft, 33.489, -80.874. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 21	Nov 10
Earliest	Feb 12 (1961)	Oct 14 (1988)
Latest	Apr 23 (1986)	Dec 18 (1998)
Trend	1.6 days earlier per decade	0.7 days later per decade
Years with data	70	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.

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.

Chart

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 10	Feb 22	Nov 11
2024	Feb 21	Nov 30	Jan 22	Dec 1
2023	Mar 21	Nov 3	Mar 15	Dec 15
2022	Mar 14	Oct 19	Mar 13	Nov 21
2021	Apr 3	Nov 24	Feb 4	Nov 24
2020	Mar 8	Nov 19	Feb 22	Dec 2
2019	Mar 7	Nov 4	Jan 31	Nov 13
2018	Mar 15	Nov 28	Jan 31	Nov 28
2017	Mar 17	Nov 20	Mar 17	Dec 30
2016	Feb 28	Nov 20	Feb 14	none
2015	Mar 29	Nov 24	Mar 7	Dec 20
2014	Mar 27	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 15
2013	Mar 29	Oct 26	Mar 27	Nov 13
2012	Feb 21	Nov 1	Feb 13	Nov 26
2011	Apr 5	Oct 30	Feb 12	Nov 12
2010	Mar 8	Nov 7	Mar 7	Dec 2
2009	Apr 8	Dec 11	Mar 4	Dec 21
2008	no data	Oct 29	no data	Nov 19
2006	Mar 27	Oct 23	Feb 27	Nov 3
2005	Mar 9	Nov 17	Mar 2	Nov 18
2004	Mar 24	Nov 14	Feb 28	Dec 14
2003	Feb 19	Nov 14	Jan 28	Nov 29
2002	Mar 23	Nov 17	Mar 23	Nov 29
2001	Apr 18	Oct 27	Mar 7	Dec 20
2000	Feb 22	Nov 14	Feb 6	Nov 21
1999	Mar 16	Oct 24	Feb 23	Nov 17
1998	Mar 14	Dec 18	Mar 13	Dec 18
1997	Feb 16	Nov 17	Feb 12	Nov 17
1996	Apr 10	Nov 4	Mar 23	Nov 12
1995	Mar 11	Nov 9	Feb 21	Nov 16
1994	Feb 28	Nov 24	Feb 4	Dec 20
1993	Mar 19	Nov 2	Mar 14	Dec 12
1992	Apr 3	Nov 16	Jan 25	Dec 6
1991	Mar 11	Nov 7	Feb 17	Nov 26
1990	Mar 21	Nov 30	Feb 26	Dec 5
1989	Mar 8	Nov 17	Feb 25	Dec 3
1988	Mar 17	Oct 14	Mar 16	Dec 2
1987	Apr 1	Oct 23	Feb 10	Nov 12
1986	Apr 23	Nov 14	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Mar 20	Dec 3	Mar 19	Dec 15
1984	Mar 11	Nov 7	Mar 1	Nov 13
1983	Apr 21	Nov 14	Apr 20	Dec 8
1982	Apr 7	Nov 6	Mar 8	Nov 7
1981	Mar 21	Oct 20	Mar 17	Nov 14
1980	Mar 16	Nov 12	Mar 15	Nov 22
1979	Mar 26	Oct 27	Mar 26	Nov 15
1978	Mar 18	Dec 10	Mar 6	Dec 10
1977	Mar 2	no data	Mar 1	no data
1976	Apr 10	Oct 29	Feb 9	Oct 29
1975	Apr 6	Nov 15	Mar 5	Nov 15
1974	Mar 18	Oct 22	Feb 28	Nov 16
1973	Mar 23	Nov 10	Feb 20	Nov 11
1972	Apr 10	Nov 18	Mar 6	Nov 24
1971	Apr 8	Nov 8	Mar 27	none
1970	Mar 17	Nov 16	Mar 17	Nov 24
1969	Mar 15	Nov 15	Mar 15	Nov 15
1968	Mar 25	Nov 13	Mar 24	Nov 21
1967	Mar 20	Nov 5	Mar 19	Nov 7
1966	Mar 29	Nov 3	Mar 10	Nov 4
1965	Mar 22	Nov 18	Mar 22	Dec 1
1964	Mar 31	Nov 22	Mar 31	Dec 1
1963	Mar 23	Oct 31	Mar 23	Nov 3
1962	Apr 3	Oct 26	Mar 9	Dec 7
1961	Feb 12	Oct 28	Feb 10	Dec 21
1960	Apr 11	Nov 8	Mar 21	Dec 1
1959	Mar 8	Nov 18	Feb 21	Nov 19
1958	Mar 23	Dec 1	Mar 22	Dec 1
1957	Mar 11	Oct 28	Mar 10	Nov 11
1956	Mar 25	Nov 10	Mar 25	Nov 10
1955	Mar 30	Nov 1	Mar 29	Nov 29
1954	Mar 22	Nov 3	Mar 16	Nov 3
1953	no data	Nov 7	no data	Nov 7

"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.