Valley Head, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00018469, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,121 ft, 34.569, -85.606. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 17	Oct 20
Earliest	Mar 9 (2010)	Sep 22 (1983)
Latest	May 30 (1984)	Nov 14 (2015)
Trend	2.1 days earlier per decade	1.8 days later per decade
Years with data	71	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.

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 16	no data	Apr 9	no data
2024	Apr 22	Oct 16	Apr 6	Nov 22
2023	Mar 30	Oct 31	Mar 21	Nov 1
2022	Apr 20	Oct 9	Apr 10	Oct 18
2021	Apr 22	no data	Apr 22	no data
2020	Apr 16	Nov 2	Mar 7	Nov 17
2019	Apr 3	Nov 1	Apr 1	Nov 2
2018	Apr 17	no data	Apr 8	no data
2017	Apr 8	Oct 26	Mar 16	Oct 29
2016	Apr 9	Nov 10	Mar 5	Nov 20
2015	no data	Nov 14	no data	Nov 14
2014	Apr 16	Nov 2	Apr 16	Nov 2
2012	Apr 13	Oct 31	Mar 6	Oct 31
2011	Apr 6	Oct 22	Feb 15	Nov 11
2010	Mar 9	Oct 30	Mar 8	Nov 7
2009	Apr 9	Oct 18	Apr 9	Nov 27
2008	Apr 17	Oct 28	Mar 26	Oct 28
2007	Apr 17	Nov 4	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Apr 10	Oct 15	Mar 28	Oct 25
2005	Apr 26	Oct 24	Apr 25	Oct 26
2004	Apr 16	Nov 6	Apr 6	Nov 26
2003	Apr 2	Nov 14	Apr 1	Nov 14
2002	Apr 7	Nov 2	Apr 6	Nov 2
2001	Apr 20	Oct 17	Apr 19	Oct 27
2000	Apr 11	Oct 8	Apr 10	Oct 8
1999	Apr 19	Oct 21	Mar 27	Oct 24
1998	Apr 13	Oct 24	Mar 15	Nov 6
1997	Apr 19	Oct 23	Apr 19	Oct 23
1996	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 12	Nov 3
1995	Apr 3	Oct 21	Mar 11	Nov 4
1994	Apr 2	Oct 27	Apr 1	Nov 23
1993	Apr 24	Oct 28	Apr 3	Oct 28
1992	Apr 30	Oct 19	Apr 6	Nov 8
1991	Apr 2	Oct 7	Mar 31	Oct 7
1990	Apr 14	Oct 26	Apr 13	Oct 26
1989	Apr 14	Oct 9	Apr 13	Oct 21
1988	Apr 29	Oct 8	Mar 21	Oct 13
1987	Apr 10	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 4
1986	May 4	Oct 16	Apr 24	Nov 14
1985	Apr 11	Oct 6	Apr 10	Nov 8
1984	May 30	Oct 2	Apr 2	Oct 2
1983	Apr 27	Sep 22	Apr 22	Oct 27
1982	Apr 24	Sep 23	Apr 23	Oct 24
1981	Apr 6	Oct 3	Mar 26	Oct 3
1980	Apr 16	Oct 6	Mar 22	Oct 13
1979	Apr 7	Oct 14	Mar 27	Nov 4
1978	Apr 28	Oct 7	Apr 22	Oct 8
1977	Apr 26	Oct 13	Apr 6	Oct 13
1976	May 4	Oct 21	Apr 10	Oct 22
1975	Apr 21	Oct 20	Apr 13	Nov 15
1974	Apr 25	Oct 3	Mar 23	Oct 3
1973	May 5	Oct 18	Apr 14	Oct 18
1972	Apr 27	Oct 20	Apr 5	Nov 18
1971	May 4	Nov 4	Apr 8	Nov 5
1970	Apr 15	Nov 3	Apr 3	Nov 3
1969	Apr 30	Oct 18	Apr 1	Nov 4
1968	May 6	Oct 5	Apr 6	Oct 26
1967	Apr 28	Sep 30	Mar 23	Oct 28
1966	May 10	Oct 20	Apr 10	Nov 3
1965	Apr 17	no data	Mar 22	no data
1964	Apr 11	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 10
1963	May 2	Oct 18	Apr 15	Oct 29
1962	Apr 20	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 24
1961	May 3	Oct 5	Apr 18	Oct 20
1960	May 2	Oct 21	Apr 11	Nov 4
1959	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 14	Nov 7
1958	Apr 13	Oct 28	Mar 23	Oct 28
1957	Apr 15	Oct 19	Apr 15	Oct 27
1956	Apr 22	Nov 9	Apr 21	Nov 10
1955	no data	Oct 16	no data	Oct 25
1954	Apr 1	Oct 22	Apr 1	Oct 30
1953	Apr 21	Oct 30	Apr 21	Oct 30
1952	Apr 17	no data	Apr 7	no data
1951	no data	Oct 11	no data	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.