Pickens, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00386831, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,075 ft, 34.881, -82.719. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 31	Nov 5
Earliest	Mar 8 (2003)	Oct 13 (1996)
Latest	Apr 26 (1995)	Dec 10 (1978)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	70	70

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 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)

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 11	Mar 3	Nov 11
2024	Mar 24	Nov 23	Mar 19	Nov 30
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 14	Oct 19
2021	Apr 22	Nov 19	Apr 3	Nov 23
2020	Apr 11	Nov 2	Mar 8	Dec 2
2019	Apr 1	Nov 3	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Apr 17	Nov 11	Mar 13	Nov 28
2017	Mar 21	Oct 30	Mar 17	Nov 20
2016	Apr 10	Nov 20	Feb 28	Nov 20
2015	Mar 30	Nov 14	Mar 30	Nov 14
2014	Apr 17	Nov 2	Mar 27	Nov 2
2013	Mar 30	Oct 26	Mar 30	Oct 27
2012	Apr 13	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 25
2011	Apr 7	Oct 30	Feb 14	Nov 12
2010	Mar 9	Nov 6	Mar 8	Nov 7
2009	Apr 9	Oct 19	Mar 6	Nov 28
2008	Apr 17	Oct 28	Mar 26	Nov 18
2007	Apr 11	Oct 30	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Mar 28	Oct 15	Mar 28	Oct 24
2005	Mar 20	Oct 25	Mar 19	Nov 18
2004	Apr 5	Nov 9	Mar 23	Nov 14
2003	Mar 8	Nov 13	Feb 13	Nov 13
2002	Apr 5	Nov 1	Mar 23	Nov 17
1999	Mar 29	Oct 24	Mar 17	Nov 4
1998	Apr 13	Oct 23	Mar 24	Nov 22
1997	Apr 21	Oct 28	Apr 1	Nov 16
1996	Apr 12	Oct 13	Apr 11	Nov 3
1995	Apr 26	Nov 4	Mar 11	Nov 5
1994	Mar 17	Oct 28	Mar 17	Nov 24
1992	no data	Nov 7	no data	Nov 16
1991	Mar 11	no data	Mar 11	no data
1990	Apr 12	Nov 18	Mar 21	Nov 30
1989	Mar 10	Oct 20	Feb 26	Nov 17
1988	Mar 17	Nov 29	Mar 17	Nov 29
1987	Apr 6	Oct 22	Apr 4	Oct 22
1986	Apr 17	Nov 14	Mar 22	Nov 14
1985	Apr 10	Dec 3	Mar 19	Dec 3
1984	Mar 30	Nov 7	Mar 11	Nov 13
1983	Apr 21	Nov 12	Apr 20	Nov 14
1982	Apr 7	Nov 5	Apr 7	Nov 6
1981	Mar 24	Nov 21	Mar 20	Nov 21
1980	Mar 22	Nov 19	Mar 4	Nov 19
1979	Mar 26	Nov 15	Mar 26	Nov 29
1978	Apr 22	Dec 10	Mar 18	Dec 10
1977	Mar 23	Nov 11	Mar 8	Nov 26
1976	Mar 18	Oct 19	Feb 9	Oct 29
1975	Mar 26	Nov 14	Mar 15	Nov 15
1974	Mar 25	Oct 20	Feb 27	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 10	Feb 22	Nov 10
1972	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 9	Nov 24
1971	Mar 31	Nov 8	Mar 28	Nov 8
1970	Mar 27	Nov 16	Mar 16	Nov 16
1969	Mar 28	Nov 6	Mar 27	Nov 15
1968	Mar 24	Oct 29	Mar 24	Nov 13
1967	Mar 19	Nov 5	Mar 19	Nov 6
1966	Mar 29	Nov 3	Mar 9	Nov 3
1965	Mar 22	Oct 25	Mar 22	Oct 25
1964	Apr 9	Nov 22	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	Mar 23	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 3
1962	Apr 16	Oct 26	Mar 17	Oct 27
1961	Apr 11	Nov 9	Feb 10	Nov 29
1960	Apr 10	Nov 6	Mar 23	Nov 30
1959	Apr 14	Nov 8	Mar 13	Nov 18
1958	Mar 22	Nov 29	Mar 22	Nov 29
1957	Apr 9	Oct 28	Feb 15	Oct 28
1956	Apr 21	Nov 11	Apr 9	Nov 25
1955	Mar 30	no data	Mar 28	no data
1954	Mar 22	Oct 31	Mar 17	Oct 31
1953	Apr 21	Nov 7	Mar 27	Nov 7
1952	Mar 17	Oct 21	Mar 17	Oct 21
1951	no data	Nov 3	no data	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 to 2020 frost probabilities.