Hanceville, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00013655, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 590 ft, 34.068, -86.791. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 30
Earliest	Mar 7 (2016)	Oct 18 (2015)
Latest	Apr 25 (2005)	Nov 26 (2004)
Trend	1.5 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	22	21

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.

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
2025	Mar 22	Nov 11	Mar 22	Nov 11
2024	Apr 8	Oct 18	Mar 20	Dec 1
2023	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 20	Nov 2
2022	Apr 10	Oct 19	Mar 15	Oct 20
2021	Apr 24	Nov 7	Apr 4	Nov 14
2020	Apr 17	Nov 3	Mar 1	Dec 1
2019	Apr 4	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 2
2018	Apr 17	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 11
2017	Apr 8	Oct 30	Mar 16	Oct 30
2016	Mar 7	Nov 11	Feb 28	Nov 20
2015	Mar 29	Oct 18	Mar 29	Nov 15
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Mar 27	Nov 2
2013	Apr 20	Oct 24	Mar 28	Oct 26
2012	Apr 12	Oct 31	Feb 25	Nov 1
2011	Apr 6	Oct 21	Feb 13	Oct 30
2010	Mar 8	Oct 30	Mar 8	Nov 7
2009	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 27
2008	Apr 16	Oct 29	Mar 25	Oct 29
2007	Apr 8	no data	Apr 8	no data
2006	Mar 27	Oct 23	Mar 26	Nov 3
2005	Apr 25	Oct 26	Mar 4	Oct 29
2004	Apr 2	Nov 26	Mar 23	Dec 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.