Chipley, FL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00081544, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 130 ft, 30.781, -85.550. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 7	Nov 14
Earliest	Jan 29 (2003)	Oct 20 (1981)
Latest	Apr 4 (1987)	Dec 19 (2015)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.8 days later per decade
Years with data	66	60

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 17 and the median first fall date is Dec 2.

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	Feb 23	Nov 11	Feb 22	Dec 15
2024	Feb 21	Dec 1	Jan 22	Dec 4
2023	no data	Nov 2	no data	none
2019	Mar 7	no data	Jan 31	no data
2018	Mar 16	no data	Jan 25	no data
2017	Mar 17	Dec 10	Jan 10	Dec 10
2016	Feb 28	Nov 20	Feb 11	none
2015	Mar 7	Dec 19	Feb 21	none
2014	Mar 17	Nov 15	Mar 8	Nov 18
2013	Mar 28	Nov 14	Feb 17	Nov 28
2012	Feb 14	Oct 29	Feb 13	Nov 9
2011	Feb 14	Nov 12	Feb 13	Nov 13
2010	Mar 7	Nov 7	Feb 18	Dec 7
2009	no data	Dec 6	no data	Dec 29
2008	Mar 28	no data	Feb 28	no data
2007	Mar 6	Nov 8	Mar 6	Dec 6
2006	Mar 31	Nov 20	Feb 17	Dec 5
2005	Mar 5	no data	Jan 28	no data
2004	Feb 19	no data	Feb 8	no data
2003	Jan 29	Nov 25	Jan 29	Dec 20
2002	Mar 23	Nov 29	Mar 5	none
1998	Mar 14	Dec 18	Mar 13	none
1997	Feb 17	no data	Jan 19	no data
1996	no data	Dec 13	no data	Dec 19
1995	Mar 10	no data	Feb 10	no data
1994	Mar 17	Dec 12	Feb 4	Dec 20
1993	Mar 16	Nov 1	Mar 15	Nov 1
1992	Feb 10	Nov 29	Feb 9	Dec 4
1991	Mar 12	Nov 4	Feb 17	Nov 5
1990	Mar 21	Nov 18	Jan 14	Dec 5
1989	Feb 26	Nov 17	Feb 26	Dec 4
1988	Mar 17	Nov 29	Mar 15	Dec 3
1987	Apr 4	Oct 29	Feb 11	Dec 5
1986	Mar 23	Oct 21	Mar 3	none
1985	Feb 18	Dec 3	Feb 17	Dec 15
1984	Mar 10	Nov 8	Mar 2	Nov 13
1983	Mar 13	Nov 13	Feb 8	Dec 24
1982	Mar 10	Nov 6	Jan 28	Dec 13
1981	Feb 13	Oct 20	Feb 13	Nov 21
1980	Mar 5	Nov 20	Mar 4	Dec 15
1979	Feb 28	Nov 15	Feb 12	Nov 30
1978	Mar 6	Dec 10	Mar 5	Dec 10
1977	Mar 2	Nov 13	Feb 11	Dec 7
1976	Feb 10	no data	Feb 8	no data
1975	Feb 9	Nov 15	Feb 8	Dec 19
1974	Mar 1	Nov 13	Feb 28	Dec 2
1973	Feb 18	Dec 8	Feb 18	Dec 11
1972	Mar 6	Nov 18	Feb 6	Dec 17
1971	Mar 21	Nov 11	Feb 16	none
1970	Mar 16	Nov 17	Feb 27	Nov 17
1969	Mar 27	Nov 15	Feb 19	Nov 15
1968	Mar 25	Oct 26	Mar 24	Nov 13
1967	Feb 27	Nov 6	Feb 26	Nov 7
1966	Mar 9	Nov 4	Mar 7	Nov 4
1965	Mar 21	Nov 30	Feb 26	Dec 1
1964	Mar 31	Nov 22	Feb 24	Dec 1
1963	Feb 28	Nov 3	Feb 28	Nov 14
1962	Mar 18	Nov 6	Mar 6	Nov 6
1961	Feb 5	Nov 9	Feb 4	Nov 30
1960	Mar 22	no data	Mar 22	no data
1959	Feb 21	Nov 7	Feb 21	Nov 29
1958	Feb 22	Nov 29	Feb 21	Dec 12
1957	Mar 10	Dec 1	Jan 19	Dec 1
1956	Mar 21	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 23
1955	Mar 29	Nov 5	Mar 29	Nov 29
1954	Mar 7	Oct 31	Mar 7	Nov 3
1953	Feb 18	Nov 10	Feb 18	Dec 18
1952	Feb 8	Oct 30	Jan 30	Oct 30
1951	Mar 16	Nov 8	Feb 9	Nov 9

"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.