Last Frost Day

Frost history / York 5 Sse, SC

York 5 Sse, SC: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00389625, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 660 ft, 34.922, -81.197. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 30Nov 7
EarliestMar 11 (2012)Oct 19 (2022)
LatestApr 23 (2021)Nov 27 (2009)
Trend3.4 days later per decade0.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data1919

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 18 and the median first fall date is Nov 18.

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 30201020202006: Mar 282007: Apr 102008: Mar 252009: Apr 92011: Mar 292012: Mar 112013: Mar 302014: Apr 172015: Mar 302016: Apr 112017: Mar 182018: Apr 202019: Mar 292020: Apr 122021: Apr 232022: Apr 102023: Mar 222024: Mar 202025: Apr 14

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202005: Nov 182006: Oct 242007: Nov 72008: Oct 282009: Nov 272011: Nov 112012: Nov 72013: Oct 262014: Nov 22015: Nov 152016: Nov 202018: Nov 112019: Nov 32020: Nov 22021: Nov 52022: Oct 192023: Nov 22024: Nov 222025: Nov 11

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 14Nov 11Mar 7Nov 11
2024Mar 20Nov 22Mar 20Nov 30
2023Mar 22Nov 2Mar 22Nov 2
2022Apr 10Oct 19Mar 14Nov 17
2021Apr 23Nov 5Apr 4Nov 23
2020Apr 12Nov 2Mar 9Dec 2
2019Mar 29Nov 3Mar 7Nov 9
2018Apr 20Nov 11Apr 18Nov 11
2017Mar 18no dataMar 18no data
2016Apr 11Nov 20Feb 28Nov 27
2015Mar 30Nov 15Mar 30Nov 23
2014Apr 17Nov 2Mar 28Nov 15
2013Mar 30Oct 26Mar 28Nov 13
2012Mar 11Nov 7Mar 6Nov 25
2011Mar 29Nov 11Feb 13Nov 18
2009Apr 9Nov 27Mar 6Dec 6
2008Mar 25Oct 28Mar 10Nov 19
2007Apr 10Nov 7Apr 8Nov 8
2006Mar 28Oct 24Mar 26Nov 4
2005no dataNov 18no dataNov 18

"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.