Opelika, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00016129, 1957 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 640 ft, 32.659, -85.449. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 29	Nov 3
Earliest	Feb 26 (1989)	Oct 10 (2000)
Latest	Apr 27 (1977)	Dec 12 (1992)
Trend	1.6 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	59	56

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 15 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.

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	no data	Mar 21	no data
2024	Mar 21	Nov 23	Feb 21	Nov 30
2023	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 2
2022	Mar 22	Oct 19	Mar 14	Nov 17
2021	Apr 3	Nov 7	Feb 21	Nov 14
2020	Mar 1	Nov 3	Feb 28	Dec 1
2019	Mar 23	Nov 3	Mar 7	Nov 13
2018	Mar 23	Nov 16	Mar 15	Nov 27
2017	Mar 17	Oct 30	Mar 16	Nov 27
2016	Mar 23	Nov 11	Feb 27	Nov 20
2015	Mar 29	Nov 15	Mar 8	Nov 23
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Mar 27	Nov 14
2013	Mar 31	Oct 24	Mar 31	Oct 24
2012	Feb 26	Nov 1	Feb 13	Nov 25
2011	Apr 7	Oct 22	Feb 13	Nov 11
2010	Mar 9	Nov 6	Mar 7	Nov 6
2009	Apr 9	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 27
2008	Apr 18	Oct 28	Mar 26	Oct 29
2007	Apr 19	Nov 4	Apr 8	Nov 8
2004	Apr 4	Nov 16	Mar 11	Dec 3
2003	Apr 1	Nov 14	Apr 1	Nov 25
2002	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 23
2001	Apr 19	no data	Mar 7	no data
2000	no data	Oct 10	no data	Nov 15
1999	Mar 28	Oct 24	Mar 5	Nov 3
1998	Mar 23	Nov 7	Mar 14	Dec 16
1997	Apr 19	Oct 29	Feb 17	Nov 16
1996	Apr 12	Oct 20	Mar 22	Dec 3
1995	Apr 3	Nov 9	Mar 9	Nov 16
1992	Apr 4	Dec 12	Mar 10	none
1990	Mar 21	Oct 27	Jan 31	Dec 5
1989	Feb 26	Oct 20	Feb 26	Nov 17
1988	Mar 17	no data	Mar 17	no data
1987	Apr 7	Oct 23	Apr 4	Nov 12
1986	Mar 24	Nov 22	Mar 24	none
1985	Apr 3	no data	Mar 19	no data
1984	Mar 11	Nov 8	Mar 11	Nov 14
1983	Apr 20	no data	Apr 19	no data
1982	Apr 8	Oct 26	Mar 10	Nov 5
1981	Mar 25	no data	Mar 18	no data
1980	Mar 15	Oct 26	Mar 5	Nov 20
1979	Mar 27	Nov 15	Mar 26	Nov 29
1978	Mar 29	Oct 15	Mar 7	Dec 6
1977	Apr 27	Oct 18	Mar 9	Nov 27
1976	Apr 2	Oct 29	Mar 18	Nov 6
1975	Mar 16	Nov 14	Mar 6	Nov 15
1974	no data	Nov 13	no data	Nov 15
1973	Apr 12	Nov 10	Apr 11	Dec 1
1972	Apr 2	Nov 18	Mar 6	Dec 1
1971	Apr 9	Nov 8	Mar 21	Nov 22
1970	Mar 24	Nov 17	Mar 16	Nov 17
1969	Mar 28	Nov 5	Mar 27	Nov 15
1968	Mar 26	Oct 26	Mar 25	Oct 26
1967	Mar 23	Nov 5	Mar 19	Nov 7
1966	Apr 6	Nov 3	Mar 25	Nov 3
1965	no data	Oct 26	no data	Nov 30
1964	Apr 10	Oct 20	Mar 31	Nov 22
1963	Mar 25	no data	Mar 1	no data
1962	Apr 18	Oct 24	Mar 18	Nov 23
1961	Apr 18	no data	Mar 10	no data
1960	Apr 10	Nov 1	Mar 20	Nov 20
1959	Apr 14	Nov 7	Mar 13	Nov 7
1958	Mar 23	Nov 8	Mar 22	Nov 22
1957	no data	Oct 27	no data	Oct 28

"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.