Wedgefield, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00389039, 1987 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 250 ft, 33.900, -80.521. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 31	Nov 4
Earliest	Mar 12 (1991)	Oct 10 (2000)
Latest	Apr 19 (2001)	Nov 30 (1990)
Trend	5.8 days later per decade	3.2 days later per decade
Years with data	23	20

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.

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
2009	Apr 8	no data	Mar 5	no data
2008	Apr 16	Oct 29	Mar 9	Nov 19
2007	Apr 9	Nov 7	Apr 9	Nov 8
2006	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 4	Nov 4
2005	Mar 19	Nov 11	Mar 9	Nov 19
2004	Apr 5	Nov 15	Mar 11	Nov 15
2003	Mar 31	Nov 14	Feb 19	Nov 14
2002	Mar 23	Nov 18	Mar 23	Nov 23
2001	Apr 19	Oct 27	Apr 18	Oct 29
2000	Apr 5	Oct 10	Mar 13	Oct 10
1999	Mar 16	Nov 4	Mar 16	Nov 18
1998	Mar 14	Nov 7	Mar 13	Dec 18
1997	Apr 18	no data	Feb 16	no data
1996	Apr 11	no data	Apr 10	no data
1995	Mar 12	Nov 9	Mar 11	Nov 9
1994	Mar 16	Nov 23	Feb 28	Nov 23
1993	Mar 19	Nov 1	Mar 19	Dec 12
1992	Apr 6	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 17
1991	Mar 12	Nov 5	Mar 10	Nov 25
1990	Mar 21	Nov 30	Mar 21	Dec 1
1989	Apr 13	Oct 21	Mar 8	Nov 17
1988	Mar 17	Oct 14	Mar 17	Oct 14
1987	Apr 1	Oct 23	Mar 11	Nov 12

"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.