Frost history / Rockford 3 Ese, AL
Rockford 3 Ese, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00017020, 1954 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 600 ft, 32.871, -86.176. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 1 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Mar 6 (2012) | Oct 4 (1974) |
| Latest | Apr 23 (1986) | Dec 19 (2015) |
| Trend | 2.2 days earlier per decade | 2.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 45 | 45 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 22 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Dec 19 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 26 | Nov 14 | Mar 26 | Nov 19 |
| 2013 | Apr 20 | Oct 26 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Mar 6 | Nov 9 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 31 | Feb 13 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Nov 26 | Apr 8 | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | Mar 26 | Oct 29 | Mar 25 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Apr 16 | Nov 7 | Apr 8 | Nov 8 |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Nov 4 | Mar 26 | Dec 4 |
| 2005 | Mar 18 | Oct 26 | Mar 4 | Nov 18 |
| 2004 | Apr 1 | Nov 26 | Mar 11 | Dec 14 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 | Mar 31 | Nov 14 |
| 2002 | Mar 28 | Nov 18 | Mar 23 | Nov 23 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 28 | no data | Oct 28 |
| 1991 | Mar 15 | Nov 4 | Mar 15 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Oct 27 | Feb 25 | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | no data | Oct 20 | no data | Oct 20 |
| 1986 | Apr 23 | Nov 14 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 |
| 1985 | Apr 9 | no data | Feb 17 | no data |
| 1984 | Mar 21 | Nov 13 | Mar 11 | Nov 13 |
| 1983 | Apr 20 | Nov 12 | Apr 19 | Nov 12 |
| 1982 | Apr 7 | no data | Mar 8 | no data |
| 1981 | Mar 21 | Nov 14 | Mar 20 | Nov 21 |
| 1980 | Mar 15 | no data | Mar 4 | no data |
| 1979 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 | Mar 26 | Nov 15 |
| 1978 | Mar 28 | no data | Mar 28 | no data |
| 1977 | Mar 23 | Oct 14 | Feb 28 | Nov 13 |
| 1976 | Mar 18 | Oct 21 | Mar 17 | Oct 29 |
| 1975 | Apr 4 | Nov 14 | Mar 15 | Nov 14 |
| 1974 | Apr 6 | Oct 4 | Feb 28 | Nov 13 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | Nov 10 | Apr 11 | Nov 10 |
| 1972 | Apr 2 | Nov 18 | Mar 6 | Nov 24 |
| 1971 | Mar 27 | Nov 5 | Mar 21 | Nov 8 |
| 1970 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 | Mar 16 | Nov 4 |
| 1969 | Mar 27 | Nov 4 | Mar 27 | Nov 5 |
| 1968 | Apr 6 | Oct 26 | Mar 24 | Nov 13 |
| 1967 | Mar 19 | Nov 5 | Mar 19 | Nov 5 |
| 1966 | Apr 10 | Nov 2 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1965 | Mar 23 | Oct 25 | Mar 22 | Oct 25 |
| 1964 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 22 |
| 1963 | Apr 16 | Oct 30 | Mar 25 | Nov 3 |
| 1960 | Apr 12 | Nov 4 | Apr 11 | Nov 8 |
| 1959 | Apr 14 | Nov 7 | Mar 18 | Nov 7 |
| 1958 | Apr 8 | Oct 28 | Mar 22 | Nov 29 |
| 1957 | Apr 16 | Oct 27 | Mar 29 | Oct 28 |
| 1956 | Apr 21 | Nov 9 | Mar 25 | Nov 10 |
| 1955 | Apr 8 | Oct 15 | Mar 30 | Oct 25 |
| 1954 | no data | Oct 16 | no data | Oct 17 |
"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.