Gadsden, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00013154, 1953 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 565 ft, 34.022, -85.988. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 28	Nov 8
Earliest	Feb 16 (2011)	Oct 17 (1954)
Latest	Apr 22 (1986)	Dec 2 (2009)
Trend	4.1 days earlier per decade	3.1 days later per decade
Years with data	57	54

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 11 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.

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.

Chart

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
2021	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 27
2020	Mar 1	no data	Feb 22	no data
2019	Mar 7	no data	Mar 7	no data
2018	Mar 23	Nov 10	Mar 11	Dec 5
2017	Mar 16	Nov 23	Mar 16	Nov 23
2016	Mar 22	Nov 22	Feb 14	Nov 28
2015	Mar 30	Nov 25	Mar 30	Nov 25
2014	Mar 14	Nov 1	Feb 28	Nov 1
2013	Mar 21	Oct 26	Mar 8	Nov 13
2012	Feb 23	Nov 24	Feb 12	Nov 25
2011	Feb 16	Nov 11	Feb 16	Dec 1
2010	Mar 8	Nov 7	Mar 7	Dec 6
2009	Apr 8	Dec 2	Mar 4	Dec 6
2008	no data	Oct 29	no data	Nov 19
2005	Mar 4	Nov 17	Mar 2	Nov 19
2004	Mar 23	Nov 26	Feb 28	Dec 14
2003	Mar 31	Nov 25	Feb 13	Nov 25
2002	Mar 23	Nov 17	Mar 21	Nov 22
2001	Mar 27	Oct 27	Feb 18	Dec 20
2000	Apr 9	Nov 14	Feb 6	Nov 21
1999	Mar 16	Nov 3	Mar 4	Nov 30
1998	Mar 17	Nov 6	Mar 17	Dec 17
1997	Mar 16	Nov 16	Feb 16	Nov 16
1996	Apr 11	no data	Mar 22	no data
1995	Mar 11	Nov 4	Mar 9	Nov 9
1994	no data	Nov 24	no data	Dec 12
1992	Apr 4	no data	Mar 17	no data
1991	Mar 12	no data	Feb 17	no data
1990	Apr 9	Nov 30	Feb 26	Dec 1
1989	Apr 12	Nov 4	Mar 11	Nov 17
1988	Mar 18	Nov 29	Mar 18	Dec 2
1987	Apr 4	Oct 21	Apr 4	Nov 21
1986	Apr 22	no data	Mar 23	no data
1985	Apr 9	Dec 2	Mar 18	Dec 2
1984	Mar 12	Nov 10	Mar 12	Nov 21
1983	Apr 20	no data	Mar 12	no data
1981	Mar 19	Nov 21	Mar 16	Nov 22
1979	Mar 27	Nov 14	Feb 20	Nov 30
1978	Mar 28	no data	Mar 18	no data
1977	Mar 24	Nov 12	Mar 1	Nov 13
1976	Mar 18	Oct 28	Feb 13	Oct 28
1975	Apr 4	Nov 14	Mar 10	Nov 15
1974	no data	Nov 12	no data	Nov 14
1973	Apr 12	Nov 10	Apr 12	Nov 10
1972	Apr 3	Nov 18	Mar 7	Nov 24
1970	Apr 3	Nov 3	Mar 16	Nov 17
1969	Mar 28	Nov 4	Mar 27	Nov 5
1968	Mar 26	Oct 26	Mar 25	Oct 26
1967	Mar 19	no data	Mar 18	no data
1966	Apr 6	Nov 3	Mar 29	Nov 3
1965	no data	Oct 25	no data	Oct 25
1964	Mar 31	Oct 20	Mar 30	Nov 22
1963	Apr 15	Oct 30	Mar 23	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Oct 25	Mar 18	Oct 26
1961	Apr 8	Oct 20	Feb 26	Oct 27
1960	Apr 19	Nov 1	Apr 11	Nov 8
1959	Apr 15	Nov 7	Mar 8	Nov 7
1958	Mar 29	Oct 28	Mar 22	Nov 29
1957	Apr 15	Oct 28	Mar 10	Oct 28
1956	Apr 21	Nov 9	Mar 25	Nov 10
1955	Mar 31	Oct 20	Mar 30	Oct 26
1954	Mar 18	Oct 17	Mar 7	Oct 30
1953	no data	Oct 30	no data	Oct 31

"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.