Frost history / Ft Benning Lawson Fld, GA
Ft Benning Lawson Fld, GA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013829, 1951 to 1970, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 289 ft, 32.350, -85.000. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 19 | Nov 6 |
| Earliest | Feb 11 (1961) | Oct 27 (1961) |
| Latest | Mar 31 (1964) | Nov 22 (1964) |
| Trend | 11.0 days later per decade | 2.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 20 | 20 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 26.
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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 | Mar 14 | Nov 17 |
| 1969 | Mar 27 | Nov 5 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 |
| 1968 | Mar 25 | Oct 27 | Mar 24 | Nov 13 |
| 1967 | Mar 19 | Nov 6 | Feb 26 | Nov 7 |
| 1966 | Mar 29 | Nov 3 | Mar 10 | Nov 30 |
| 1965 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 | Mar 22 | Nov 30 |
| 1964 | Mar 31 | Nov 22 | Mar 31 | Dec 1 |
| 1963 | Mar 23 | Oct 30 | Feb 28 | Nov 13 |
| 1962 | Mar 18 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Dec 6 |
| 1961 | Feb 11 | Oct 27 | Feb 11 | Nov 10 |
| 1960 | Mar 22 | Nov 8 | Mar 8 | Dec 2 |
| 1959 | Mar 8 | Nov 7 | Mar 4 | Nov 29 |
| 1958 | Feb 22 | Nov 21 | Feb 22 | Dec 11 |
| 1957 | Mar 10 | Oct 29 | Jan 19 | Dec 1 |
| 1956 | Mar 21 | Nov 10 | Mar 9 | Nov 23 |
| 1955 | Mar 30 | Oct 31 | Mar 27 | Nov 29 |
| 1954 | Mar 17 | Oct 31 | Mar 7 | Nov 3 |
| 1953 | Feb 18 | Nov 11 | Feb 18 | Dec 17 |
| 1952 | Feb 19 | Oct 30 | Jan 31 | Oct 30 |
| 1951 | Mar 16 | Nov 4 | Feb 12 | Nov 9 |
"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.