Last Frost Day

Frost history / Perry Foley Ap, FL

Perry Foley Ap, FL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053862, 1998 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 45 ft, 30.072, -83.574. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 7Nov 20
EarliestFeb 6 (2001)Oct 25 (1999)
LatestApr 8 (2009)Dec 21 (2001)
Trend12.9 days later per decade6.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data1415

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 20 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15200020101999: Mar 52000: Mar 132001: Feb 62002: Mar 62003: Feb 122005: Mar 22006: Mar 272007: Feb 202008: Mar 252009: Apr 82010: Mar 72011: Mar 122012: Feb 142013: Mar 27

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26200020101998: Dec 161999: Oct 252000: Nov 212001: Dec 212002: Nov 182004: Dec 122005: Oct 262006: Nov 202007: Nov 82008: Nov 172009: Nov 272010: Nov 72011: Nov 112012: Nov 252013: Nov 28

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
2013Mar 27Nov 28Mar 4none
2012Feb 14Nov 25Feb 13Nov 25
2011Mar 12Nov 11Jan 24Nov 12
2010Mar 7Nov 7Feb 26Dec 2
2009Apr 8Nov 27Feb 21Dec 29
2008Mar 25Nov 17Feb 28Nov 19
2007Feb 20Nov 8Feb 19none
2006Mar 27Nov 20Feb 14none
2005Mar 2Oct 26Mar 2Dec 12
2004no dataDec 12no dataDec 14
2003Feb 12no dataJan 28no data
2002Mar 6Nov 18Mar 5Nov 23
2001Feb 6Dec 21Jan 26Dec 21
2000Mar 13Nov 21Feb 7Nov 22
1999Mar 5Oct 25Feb 23Dec 1
1998no dataDec 16no dataDec 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 to 2020 frost probabilities.