Frost history / Orangeburg Muni Ap, SC
Orangeburg Muni Ap, SC: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053854, 1997 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 197 ft, 33.462, -80.858. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 15 | Nov 17 |
| Earliest | Feb 19 (2003) | Oct 24 (2006) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (2007) | Dec 18 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.6 days earlier per decade | 2.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 23 and the median first fall date is Dec 4.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Feb 20 | Nov 30 | Jan 22 | Dec 3 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 30 | none | none |
| 2022 | Mar 14 | Nov 18 | Mar 13 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Apr 3 | Nov 23 | Feb 4 | Nov 24 |
| 2020 | Mar 8 | Dec 1 | Feb 22 | Dec 26 |
| 2019 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 | Jan 31 | Dec 20 |
| 2018 | Mar 15 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 | Mar 17 | Dec 30 |
| 2016 | Feb 27 | Nov 21 | Feb 14 | Dec 11 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 24 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 | Jan 31 | Nov 18 |
| 2013 | Mar 29 | Nov 13 | Feb 18 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Feb 21 | Nov 1 | Feb 13 | Dec 23 |
| 2011 | Mar 12 | Nov 12 | Feb 12 | none |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Nov 7 | Mar 7 | Dec 2 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Nov 28 | Mar 5 | Dec 30 |
| 2008 | Mar 25 | Oct 29 | Mar 9 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 9 | Nov 8 | Feb 19 | Nov 17 |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Oct 24 | Feb 27 | Dec 5 |
| 2005 | Mar 9 | Nov 23 | Mar 9 | Dec 22 |
| 2004 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 | Feb 28 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Feb 19 | Nov 14 | Feb 11 | Nov 30 |
| 2002 | Mar 23 | Nov 18 | Mar 6 | Nov 29 |
| 2001 | Mar 28 | Oct 27 | Mar 7 | Dec 21 |
| 2000 | Feb 22 | Nov 21 | Feb 6 | Nov 22 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Nov 17 | Feb 25 | Nov 18 |
| 1998 | Mar 13 | Dec 18 | Mar 13 | Dec 18 |
| 1997 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Nov 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.