Last Frost Day

Frost history / Pageland, SC

Pageland, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00386616, 1968 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 520 ft, 34.761, -80.373. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 1Nov 8
EarliestFeb 28 (2006)Oct 4 (1974)
LatestMay 9 (1989)Dec 23 (2005)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)2.0 days later per decade
Years with data3637

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.

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)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1519701980199020001969: Mar 281970: Mar 301971: Mar 271972: Apr 91975: Apr 61976: Apr 101977: Mar 231978: Mar 181979: Mar 261980: Mar 221981: Mar 251982: Apr 71983: Apr 211984: Mar 121985: Apr 101986: Apr 241987: Apr 11988: Mar 171989: May 91990: Apr 121991: Mar 111992: Apr 61993: Apr 31994: Mar 171995: Mar 111996: Apr 101997: Apr 181998: Mar 131999: Mar 162000: Mar 142001: Apr 192002: Apr 72003: Apr 12006: Feb 282008: Apr 162009: Apr 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26Jan 1019701980199020001968: Nov 121969: Oct 241970: Nov 161971: Nov 81974: Oct 41975: Nov 11976: Oct 221977: Nov 111978: Dec 21979: Nov 291980: Nov 121981: Oct 201982: Nov 61983: Nov 121984: Nov 71985: Dec 31986: Nov 141987: Oct 221988: Oct 141989: Nov 171990: Nov 301991: Nov 51992: Oct 201993: Nov 21994: Nov 241995: Nov 41996: Nov 31997: Nov 141999: Oct 252000: Nov 152001: Oct 292002: Nov 182003: Nov 142005: Dec 232006: Oct 242007: Oct 302008: Nov 19

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2009Apr 8no dataApr 8no data
2008Apr 16Nov 19Mar 10Nov 22
2007no dataOct 30no dataNov 8
2006Feb 28Oct 24Feb 28Nov 5
2005no dataDec 23no datanone
2003Apr 1Nov 14Feb 17Dec 7
2002Apr 7Nov 18Mar 23Nov 23
2001Apr 19Oct 29Mar 28Dec 22
2000Mar 14Nov 15Feb 22Nov 21
1999Mar 16Oct 25Mar 16Dec 1
1998Mar 13no dataMar 13no data
1997Apr 18Nov 14Feb 16Nov 17
1996Apr 10Nov 3Mar 23Nov 11
1995Mar 11Nov 4Mar 10Nov 9
1994Mar 17Nov 24Mar 17Nov 24
1993Apr 3Nov 2Mar 19Nov 2
1992Apr 6Oct 20Apr 3Nov 16
1991Mar 11Nov 5Feb 27Nov 6
1990Apr 12Nov 30Mar 21Dec 1
1989May 9Nov 17Mar 8Nov 17
1988Mar 17Oct 14Mar 17Dec 5
1987Apr 1Oct 22Apr 1Oct 22
1986Apr 24Nov 14Mar 23Nov 14
1985Apr 10Dec 3Mar 23Dec 3
1984Mar 12Nov 7Mar 12Nov 10
1983Apr 21Nov 12Apr 20Nov 14
1982Apr 7Nov 6Apr 7Nov 7
1981Mar 25Oct 20Mar 25Nov 8
1980Mar 22Nov 12Mar 4Nov 12
1979Mar 26Nov 29Mar 17Nov 30
1978Mar 18Dec 2Mar 18Dec 10
1977Mar 23Nov 11Mar 8Nov 12
1976Apr 10Oct 22Mar 18Oct 29
1975Apr 6Nov 1Mar 9Nov 1
1974no dataOct 4no dataOct 22
1972Apr 9no dataApr 9no data
1971Mar 27Nov 8Mar 27Nov 8
1970Mar 30Nov 16Mar 30Nov 24
1969Mar 28Oct 24Mar 14Nov 15
1968no dataNov 12no dataNov 20

"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.