Last Frost Day

Frost history / Lexington, AL

Lexington, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00010260, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 760 ft, 34.963, -87.372. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 31Oct 31
EarliestMar 8 (2010)Oct 13 (2006)
LatestApr 22 (2021)Nov 26 (2004)
Trend1.3 days earlier per decade2.9 days later per decade
Years with data2022

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 19 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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 30201020202005: Mar 182006: Mar 272007: Apr 92008: Apr 162009: Apr 72010: Mar 82011: Mar 262012: Apr 122013: Apr 202014: Apr 162015: Mar 292016: Mar 222018: Apr 172019: Apr 12020: Apr 152021: Apr 222022: Mar 212023: Mar 212024: Mar 202025: Mar 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202004: Nov 262005: Oct 262006: Oct 132007: Nov 72008: Oct 282009: Oct 192010: Oct 302011: Oct 212012: Nov 12013: Oct 252014: Nov 22015: Nov 142016: Nov 112017: Oct 302018: Oct 222019: Nov 12020: Nov 22021: Nov 142022: Oct 182023: Oct 312024: Nov 232025: Nov 3

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
2025Mar 22Nov 3Mar 22Nov 10
2024Mar 20Nov 23Mar 20Nov 29
2023Mar 21Oct 31Mar 21Nov 1
2022Mar 21Oct 18Mar 14Oct 20
2021Apr 22Nov 14Mar 7Nov 14
2020Apr 15Nov 2Mar 7Dec 1
2019Apr 1Nov 1Mar 7Nov 1
2018Apr 17Oct 22Apr 8Nov 10
2017no dataOct 30no dataNov 20
2016Mar 22Nov 11Feb 27Nov 20
2015Mar 29Nov 14Mar 29Nov 22
2014Apr 16Nov 2Mar 26Nov 2
2013Apr 20Oct 25Mar 27Oct 25
2012Apr 12Nov 1Feb 26Nov 1
2011Mar 26Oct 21Feb 26Nov 11
2010Mar 8Oct 30Mar 7Nov 6
2009Apr 7Oct 19Mar 5Nov 27
2008Apr 16Oct 28Mar 26Oct 29
2007Apr 9Nov 7Apr 9Nov 7
2006Mar 27Oct 13Mar 27Nov 3
2005Mar 18Oct 26Mar 18Nov 17
2004no dataNov 26no dataDec 2

"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.