Frost history / Tallahassee Ap, FL

Tallahassee Ap, FL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00088756, 2003 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 55 ft, 30.396, -84.356. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 16	Nov 21
Earliest	Feb 14 (2012)	Oct 27 (2005)
Latest	Apr 4 (2021)	Dec 19 (2015)
Trend	4.7 days earlier per decade	8.7 days later per decade
Years with data	16	17

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 21 and the median first fall date is Nov 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.

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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	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 11
2021	Apr 4	no data	Feb 5	no data
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	Jan 23	Dec 2
2019	Mar 8	Dec 3	Jan 31	Dec 19
2018	no data	Nov 28	no data	Nov 28
2017	Mar 17	Nov 20	Mar 17	Dec 10
2016	Mar 23	Nov 21	Feb 28	Dec 10
2015	Feb 21	Dec 19	Feb 21	none
2014	Mar 15	Nov 3	Mar 1	Nov 19
2013	Mar 29	Nov 28	Mar 5	Nov 28
2012	Feb 14	Nov 25	Feb 14	Nov 25
2011	Mar 13	Nov 12	Feb 15	Nov 12
2010	Mar 8	Nov 7	Mar 8	Dec 2
2009	no data	Nov 27	no data	Dec 21
2008	no data	Oct 29	no data	Nov 19
2007	Mar 19	Nov 8	Mar 6	Nov 8
2006	Mar 28	Dec 5	Feb 15	Dec 5
2005	Mar 5	Oct 27	Mar 3	Dec 22
2004	Mar 23	no data	Feb 20	no data
2003	Apr 2	no data	Jan 29	no data

"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.