Last Frost Day

Frost history / Spartanburg 3 Sse, SC

Spartanburg 3 Sse, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00388188, 1983 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 610 ft, 34.908, -81.914. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 11Oct 27
EarliestMar 11 (1991)Oct 2 (1984)
LatestMay 10 (2010)Nov 15 (2017)
Trend1.0 days earlier per decade3.2 days later per decade
Years with data4242

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 8.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1519902000201020201984: Apr 71985: Apr 111986: May 41987: Apr 101988: Apr 291989: May 81990: Apr 191991: Mar 111992: Apr 61993: Apr 231994: Apr 81995: Apr 251996: Apr 111997: Apr 151998: Apr 61999: Apr 192000: Apr 102001: Apr 192002: Apr 72003: Apr 12004: Apr 152005: Apr 252006: Apr 102007: Apr 102008: Apr 162009: Apr 82010: May 102011: Apr 302012: Apr 242013: Apr 62014: Apr 172015: Apr 52016: Apr 102017: Apr 82018: Apr 172019: Apr 32020: Apr 112021: Apr 232022: Apr 102023: Apr 102024: Apr 62025: Apr 13

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2619902000201020201983: Oct 271984: Oct 21985: Nov 91986: Oct 191987: Oct 41988: Oct 81989: Oct 201990: Oct 271991: Nov 41992: Oct 201993: Oct 291994: Oct 271995: Nov 41996: Oct 191997: Oct 281998: Oct 231999: Oct 242000: Oct 92001: Oct 82002: Nov 72004: Nov 62005: Oct 272006: Oct 142007: Oct 302008: Oct 202009: Oct 192010: Nov 72011: Oct 302012: Nov 12013: Oct 242014: Nov 22015: Oct 192016: Nov 112017: Nov 152018: Nov 102019: Nov 22020: Nov 22021: Nov 52022: Oct 192023: Nov 12024: Oct 172025: Nov 1

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
2025Apr 13Nov 1Mar 4Nov 11
2024Apr 6Oct 17Mar 19Dec 1
2023Apr 10Nov 1Mar 22Nov 1
2022Apr 10Oct 19Apr 10Oct 19
2021Apr 23Nov 5Apr 22Nov 20
2020Apr 11Nov 2Mar 9Dec 2
2019Apr 3Nov 2Mar 20Nov 9
2018Apr 17Nov 10Mar 16Nov 11
2017Apr 8Nov 15Mar 20Nov 15
2016Apr 10Nov 11Apr 10Nov 21
2015Apr 5Oct 19Mar 29Nov 15
2014Apr 17Nov 2Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 6Oct 24Mar 29Oct 26
2012Apr 24Nov 1Mar 11Nov 8
2011Apr 30Oct 30Apr 17Oct 30
2010May 10Nov 7Mar 8Nov 7
2009Apr 8Oct 19Apr 8Nov 28
2008Apr 16Oct 20Mar 25Oct 30
2007Apr 10Oct 30Apr 10Oct 30
2006Apr 10Oct 14Mar 27Oct 25
2005Apr 25Oct 27Mar 19Nov 11
2004Apr 15Nov 6Mar 23Nov 15
2003Apr 1no dataFeb 17no data
2002Apr 7Nov 7Mar 24Nov 18
2001Apr 19Oct 8Apr 19Oct 28
2000Apr 10Oct 9Mar 14Oct 9
1999Apr 19Oct 24Mar 28Nov 4
1998Apr 6Oct 23Mar 23Nov 22
1997Apr 15Oct 28Apr 3Nov 17
1996Apr 11Oct 19Apr 10Nov 3
1995Apr 25Nov 4Mar 12Nov 5
1994Apr 8Oct 27Mar 13Nov 24
1993Apr 23Oct 29Apr 3Nov 1
1992Apr 6Oct 20Apr 5Nov 9
1991Mar 11Nov 4Mar 11Nov 4
1990Apr 19Oct 27Apr 8Nov 18
1989May 8Oct 20Apr 12Oct 21
1988Apr 29Oct 8Mar 28Oct 13
1987Apr 10Oct 4Apr 1Oct 22
1986May 4Oct 19Apr 24Nov 14
1985Apr 11Nov 9Apr 11Nov 10
1984Apr 7Oct 2Mar 23Nov 7
1983no dataOct 27no dataNov 6

"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.