Frost history / Ft Payne, AL
Ft Payne, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00013043, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 917 ft, 34.441, -85.724. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 22 | Nov 6 |
| Earliest | Mar 7 (2020) | Oct 19 (2022) |
| Latest | Apr 23 (2021) | Dec 1 (2020) |
| Trend | 1.3 days later per decade | 5.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 11 | 10 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 16.
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 22 | Nov 10 | Mar 4 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Mar 20 | Nov 25 | Mar 19 | Dec 1 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 1 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 |
| 2022 | Apr 10 | Oct 19 | Mar 13 | Nov 14 |
| 2021 | Apr 23 | no data | Apr 2 | no data |
| 2020 | Mar 7 | Dec 1 | Mar 7 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 19 | Nov 2 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Apr 17 | Nov 11 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 |
| 2017 | Mar 17 | Oct 30 | Mar 17 | Nov 20 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 20 | no data | Nov 21 |
| 2008 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 25 | no data |
| 2005 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 2004 | Mar 23 | no data | Feb 19 | no data |
"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.