Athens, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00010390, 1992 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 689 ft, 34.775, -86.951. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 27	Nov 6
Earliest	Feb 27 (2016)	Oct 19 (1992)
Latest	Apr 22 (1993)	Nov 30 (2020)
Trend	4.7 days earlier per decade	3.1 days later per decade
Years with data	34	32

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.

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
2025	Mar 21	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 10
2024	Mar 19	Nov 23	Mar 19	Nov 29
2023	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 1
2022	Mar 14	Oct 19	Mar 13	Nov 13
2021	Apr 3	Nov 13	Feb 21	Nov 19
2020	Apr 15	Nov 30	Feb 22	Dec 1
2019	Mar 19	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 12
2018	Apr 8	Nov 10	Feb 12	Nov 27
2017	Mar 16	Nov 20	Mar 16	Dec 9
2016	Feb 27	Nov 20	Feb 14	Nov 20
2015	Mar 29	Nov 22	Mar 29	Nov 23
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 2
2013	Mar 28	Oct 25	Mar 27	Nov 13
2012	Mar 4	Nov 1	Feb 20	Nov 13
2011	Mar 2	Oct 30	Feb 13	Nov 11
2010	Mar 7	Nov 6	Mar 7	Nov 26
2009	Mar 4	no data	Mar 3	no data
2008	Apr 15	Oct 30	Mar 9	Nov 10
2007	Apr 8	Nov 7	Apr 8	Nov 7
2006	Mar 27	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 3
2005	Mar 18	Nov 16	Mar 2	Nov 17
2004	Mar 23	Nov 26	Mar 10	Dec 2
2003	Mar 31	Nov 13	Mar 31	Nov 24
2002	Apr 6	Nov 17	Mar 23	Nov 23
2001	Mar 28	Oct 27	Mar 27	Oct 28
2000	Apr 9	no data	Mar 12	no data
1999	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 4	Nov 30
1998	Mar 22	Nov 6	Mar 13	Dec 16
1997	Apr 14	Oct 28	Mar 16	Nov 15
1996	Apr 11	Nov 3	Mar 22	Nov 3
1995	Mar 11	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 4
1994	Apr 8	Nov 23	Apr 1	Nov 23
1993	Apr 22	Oct 28	Apr 3	Nov 1
1992	Apr 5	Oct 19	Apr 3	Nov 7

"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.