Last Frost Day

Frost history / Troy 2 W, AL

Troy 2 W, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00023801, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 472 ft, 31.790, -86.000. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 14Nov 14
EarliestFeb 13 (2012)Oct 19 (2022)
LatestApr 8 (2009)Nov 30 (2024)
Trend9.6 days earlier per decade1.7 days earlier per decade
Years with data1715

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 27.

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)

Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15201020202008: Mar 262009: Apr 82010: Mar 72011: Mar 122012: Feb 132013: Mar 282014: Mar 262015: Mar 82016: Mar 222017: Mar 162018: Mar 152019: Mar 72020: Feb 282021: Mar 82022: Mar 142023: Mar 212024: Feb 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202008: Oct 282009: Nov 272010: Nov 62011: Nov 112012: Nov 242013: Nov 132014: Nov 142015: Nov 232016: Nov 202017: Nov 202018: Nov 152019: Nov 122022: Oct 192023: Nov 12024: Nov 30

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
2024Feb 20Nov 30Feb 20Nov 30
2023Mar 21Nov 1Mar 21Nov 29
2022Mar 14Oct 19Mar 13Nov 17
2021Mar 8no dataFeb 17no data
2020Feb 28no dataFeb 28no data
2019Mar 7Nov 12Mar 7Nov 12
2018Mar 15Nov 15Mar 15Nov 15
2017Mar 16Nov 20Mar 16Dec 10
2016Mar 22Nov 20Feb 11Dec 10
2015Mar 8Nov 23Mar 7Dec 19
2014Mar 26Nov 14Mar 26Nov 15
2013Mar 28Nov 13Mar 27Nov 27
2012Feb 13Nov 24Feb 13Nov 25
2011Mar 12Nov 11Feb 13Nov 30
2010Mar 7Nov 6Mar 7Nov 7
2009Apr 8Nov 27Mar 3Dec 5
2008Mar 26Oct 28Mar 25Nov 18

"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.