Frost history / Apalachicola Airport, FL
Apalachicola Airport, FL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00080211, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 20 ft, 29.726, -85.021. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 12 | Dec 9 |
| Earliest | Jan 6 (1969) | Nov 1 (1993) |
| Latest | Mar 27 (1955) | Dec 29 (1961) |
| Trend | 1.8 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 56, 5 with no freeze | 58, 11 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 30 and the median first fall date is Dec 16.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feb 21 | Dec 15 | Jan 22 | none |
| 2024 | Jan 21 | none | Jan 17 | none |
| 2023 | Jan 15 | none | none | none |
| 2022 | Feb 14 | Dec 23 | Jan 30 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Jan 10 | none | none | none |
| 2020 | no data | Dec 1 | no data | Dec 2 |
| 2019 | Jan 30 | Nov 13 | none | none |
| 2018 | Jan 19 | no data | Jan 19 | no data |
| 2012 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | none |
| 2006 | Feb 16 | Dec 8 | none | none |
| 1999 | Jan 11 | Dec 24 | Jan 5 | Dec 25 |
| 1998 | none | none | none | none |
| 1997 | Jan 18 | Dec 7 | Jan 18 | none |
| 1996 | Mar 9 | Dec 18 | Mar 9 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | Feb 9 | Dec 9 | Feb 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Feb 3 | none | Feb 3 | none |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 | none | Dec 26 |
| 1992 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1991 | Feb 17 | Nov 25 | Feb 16 | none |
| 1990 | none | Dec 25 | none | none |
| 1989 | Feb 25 | Dec 4 | Feb 25 | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 16 | Dec 3 | Feb 7 | none |
| 1987 | Jan 27 | Dec 17 | none | none |
| 1986 | Mar 2 | none | Jan 28 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 15 | Dec 15 | Jan 27 | Dec 16 |
| 1984 | Mar 1 | Dec 7 | Feb 7 | Dec 8 |
| 1983 | Jan 17 | Dec 24 | Jan 13 | Dec 24 |
| 1982 | Jan 27 | Dec 18 | Jan 15 | none |
| 1981 | Feb 12 | Dec 10 | Feb 12 | Dec 11 |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | Dec 26 | Mar 4 | none |
| 1979 | Feb 12 | Nov 30 | Feb 10 | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 6 | Dec 10 | Feb 22 | none |
| 1977 | Mar 1 | Dec 7 | Feb 1 | Dec 27 |
| 1976 | Feb 8 | Nov 9 | Jan 19 | none |
| 1975 | Jan 14 | Nov 15 | none | Dec 19 |
| 1974 | Feb 26 | none | none | none |
| 1973 | Feb 17 | Dec 17 | none | none |
| 1972 | Jan 17 | Dec 17 | Jan 16 | none |
| 1971 | Feb 14 | none | Feb 14 | none |
| 1970 | Feb 4 | Nov 24 | Feb 4 | Nov 24 |
| 1969 | Jan 6 | Nov 15 | none | none |
| 1968 | Mar 1 | Dec 9 | none | Dec 16 |
| 1967 | Feb 26 | Dec 24 | Feb 26 | none |
| 1966 | Feb 5 | Dec 25 | Jan 31 | none |
| 1965 | Feb 26 | none | Jan 18 | none |
| 1964 | Jan 15 | Dec 1 | Jan 15 | none |
| 1963 | Feb 27 | Dec 19 | Jan 25 | Dec 19 |
| 1962 | Mar 6 | Dec 12 | Jan 13 | Dec 12 |
| 1961 | Jan 22 | Dec 29 | Jan 22 | none |
| 1960 | Mar 6 | Dec 2 | Jan 23 | Dec 22 |
| 1959 | Jan 23 | Nov 30 | Jan 17 | Nov 30 |
| 1958 | Feb 20 | Dec 16 | Feb 18 | none |
| 1957 | Jan 18 | Dec 11 | none | Dec 11 |
| 1956 | Jan 14 | none | none | none |
| 1955 | Mar 27 | Nov 29 | Feb 13 | none |
| 1954 | none | Nov 3 | none | none |
| 1953 | none | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 1952 | none | Dec 15 | none | none |
| 1951 | Feb 8 | Nov 18 | Feb 3 | Dec 16 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.