Lafayette 2W, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00014502, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 740 ft, 32.907, -85.434. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 4	Nov 2
Earliest	Mar 9 (1972)	Oct 7 (1964)
Latest	Apr 25 (2005)	Nov 30 (1990)
Trend	1.8 days later per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	71	64

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 18 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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	Apr 10	Nov 1	Mar 22	Nov 11
2024	Apr 24	Oct 17	Mar 19	Nov 23
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 22	Nov 2
2022	Mar 15	Oct 19	Mar 15	Oct 19
2021	Apr 23	Nov 7	Apr 4	Nov 14
2020	Apr 17	Nov 3	Mar 2	Dec 1
2019	Mar 29	Nov 1	Mar 8	Nov 3
2018	Apr 22	Nov 16	Mar 23	Nov 16
2017	Apr 8	Oct 30	Mar 18	Nov 19
2016	Mar 23	Nov 10	Mar 23	Nov 11
2015	Mar 28	Nov 21	Mar 28	Nov 21
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Mar 27	Nov 14
2013	Apr 21	Oct 27	Mar 28	Nov 13
2012	Apr 14	Nov 1	Feb 25	Nov 9
2011	Apr 7	Oct 21	Feb 15	Nov 11
2010	Mar 20	Nov 5	Mar 8	Nov 6
2009	Apr 8	no data	Apr 8	no data
2008	Apr 17	Oct 28	Mar 26	Oct 29
2007	Apr 16	Nov 3	Apr 8	Nov 7
2006	Mar 27	Oct 21	Mar 27	Nov 3
2005	Apr 25	no data	Mar 18	no data
2004	Apr 15	Nov 6	Mar 23	Nov 26
2003	Mar 31	Nov 14	Mar 31	Nov 14
2002	Apr 7	Nov 7	Mar 29	Nov 18
2001	Apr 19	Oct 17	Mar 10	Oct 28
2000	Apr 11	no data	Apr 10	no data
1999	Mar 28	Oct 24	Mar 27	Oct 24
1998	Mar 23	Oct 24	Mar 4	Nov 6
1997	Apr 18	Oct 23	Feb 17	Nov 16
1996	Apr 11	Oct 19	Apr 10	Nov 3
1995	Apr 1	Oct 20	Feb 25	Nov 11
1994	no data	Oct 27	no data	Nov 24
1991	Apr 1	no data	Mar 11	no data
1990	Apr 8	Nov 30	Feb 26	Dec 1
1989	Apr 11	Oct 20	Feb 26	Nov 17
1988	Mar 19	Oct 13	Mar 19	Nov 29
1987	Apr 7	no data	Apr 5	no data
1986	Apr 23	Nov 14	Mar 23	Nov 14
1985	Apr 9	Nov 8	Feb 17	Dec 3
1984	Mar 30	Nov 7	Mar 12	Nov 13
1983	Apr 20	Nov 5	Apr 19	Nov 12
1982	Apr 7	Oct 25	Mar 8	Oct 26
1981	Mar 25	no data	Mar 20	no data
1980	Mar 22	Nov 6	Mar 4	Nov 19
1979	Mar 26	Nov 4	Mar 26	Nov 14
1978	Mar 28	Oct 15	Mar 28	Dec 6
1977	Mar 23	Oct 14	Mar 8	Nov 11
1976	Mar 17	Oct 29	Mar 17	Nov 5
1975	Apr 4	Nov 14	Mar 9	Nov 15
1974	Mar 22	Nov 13	Feb 27	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 10	Apr 11	Nov 10
1972	Mar 9	no data	Feb 20	no data
1971	Mar 27	Nov 5	Mar 4	Nov 5
1970	Mar 23	Nov 16	Mar 17	Nov 17
1969	Mar 28	Nov 5	Mar 13	Nov 15
1968	no data	Oct 29	no data	Nov 13
1967	Mar 19	no data	Mar 19	no data
1966	Apr 11	Nov 3	Mar 25	Nov 3
1965	Mar 22	no data	Mar 22	no data
1964	Apr 10	Oct 7	Mar 31	Oct 20
1963	Mar 22	Oct 30	Feb 28	Nov 2
1962	Apr 16	Oct 26	Mar 17	Nov 6
1961	Mar 10	Nov 9	Mar 2	Nov 9
1960	Mar 23	Nov 7	Mar 23	Nov 8
1959	Apr 24	Nov 7	Apr 14	Nov 7
1958	Mar 22	Nov 29	Feb 21	Nov 29
1957	Apr 10	Oct 27	Mar 10	Oct 27
1956	Mar 25	Nov 9	Mar 21	Nov 22
1955	Mar 29	Nov 4	Mar 29	Nov 4
1954	Mar 17	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 3
1953	Apr 21	Nov 7	Feb 18	Nov 7
1952	Apr 7	Oct 21	Feb 18	Oct 30
1951	Mar 20	Nov 3	Feb 12	Nov 3

"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.