Last Frost Day

Frost history / Winfield 2 Sw, AL

Winfield 2 Sw, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00018998, 1976 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 520 ft, 33.911, -87.847. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 8Oct 26
EarliestMar 7 (2012)Oct 7 (1991)
LatestMay 4 (1994)Nov 21 (2024)
Trend2.5 days earlier per decade5.1 days later per decade
Years with data3539

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 9.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15198019902000201020201977: Apr 71978: Apr 211979: Mar 271980: Apr 11981: Apr 61990: Apr 131991: Apr 11992: Apr 41993: Apr 241994: May 41995: Apr 21996: Apr 161997: Apr 191998: Mar 231999: Apr 202000: Apr 102001: Apr 192005: Apr 252007: Apr 162008: Apr 172009: Apr 92010: Mar 192011: Mar 132012: Mar 72013: Apr 212014: Apr 172015: Mar 292017: Apr 82018: Apr 92019: Apr 12020: Mar 72021: Apr 32022: Apr 102024: Mar 202025: Apr 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26198019902000201020201976: Oct 211977: Oct 131978: Oct 151979: Oct 241980: Oct 141981: Oct 201989: Oct 201990: Oct 261991: Oct 71992: Nov 61993: Oct 111994: Nov 21995: Oct 211996: Oct 191997: Oct 241998: Nov 61999: Oct 242000: Oct 92001: Oct 172002: Nov 72003: Nov 142005: Oct 262007: Nov 42009: Oct 192010: Oct 302011: Oct 212012: Nov 12013: Oct 262014: Nov 12015: Nov 142016: Nov 112017: Nov 202018: Nov 102019: Nov 12020: Nov 32021: Nov 72023: Nov 12024: Nov 212025: Nov 3

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 8Nov 3Mar 23Nov 10
2024Mar 20Nov 21Mar 20Nov 30
2023no dataNov 1no dataNov 1
2022Apr 10no dataMar 15no data
2021Apr 3Nov 7Apr 3Nov 19
2020Mar 7Nov 3Feb 22Dec 1
2019Apr 1Nov 1Mar 9Nov 9
2018Apr 9Nov 10Mar 23Nov 11
2017Apr 8Nov 20Mar 16Nov 20
2016no dataNov 11no dataNov 20
2015Mar 29Nov 14Mar 29Nov 22
2014Apr 17Nov 1Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 21Oct 26Mar 31Nov 13
2012Mar 7Nov 1Mar 4Nov 13
2011Mar 13Oct 21Mar 11Oct 22
2010Mar 19Oct 30Mar 10Nov 6
2009Apr 9Oct 19Apr 9Nov 27
2008Apr 17no dataMar 26no data
2007Apr 16Nov 4Apr 8Nov 7
2005Apr 25Oct 26Mar 18Oct 26
2003no dataNov 14no dataNov 14
2002no dataNov 7no dataNov 23
2001Apr 19Oct 17Mar 27Oct 28
2000Apr 10Oct 9Apr 9Oct 9
1999Apr 20Oct 24Mar 22Oct 25
1998Mar 23Nov 6Mar 22Dec 16
1997Apr 19Oct 24Feb 23Nov 15
1996Apr 16Oct 19Apr 11Nov 3
1995Apr 2Oct 21Mar 12Nov 4
1994May 4Nov 2Apr 1Nov 24
1993Apr 24Oct 11Apr 22Oct 28
1992Apr 4Nov 6Apr 3Nov 7
1991Apr 1Oct 7Mar 31Oct 8
1990Apr 13Oct 26Apr 8Nov 30
1989no dataOct 20no dataOct 20
1981Apr 6Oct 20Mar 25Nov 12
1980Apr 1Oct 14Mar 23Oct 31
1979Mar 27Oct 24Mar 27Nov 4
1978Apr 21Oct 15Mar 28Dec 5
1977Apr 7Oct 13Apr 6Oct 14
1976no dataOct 21no dataOct 21

"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.