Frost history / Valley Head 1 Ssw, AL
Valley Head 1 Ssw, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00063862, 2006 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,020 ft, 34.565, -85.617. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 16 | Oct 31 |
| Earliest | Mar 27 (2010) | Oct 9 (2022) |
| Latest | Apr 24 (2012) | Nov 13 (2015) |
| Trend | 2.0 days later per decade | 1.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 17 | 18 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 22 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apr 22 | Oct 16 | Mar 19 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | Mar 29 | Nov 1 | Mar 21 | Nov 1 |
| 2022 | Apr 19 | Oct 9 | Mar 13 | Oct 19 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 7 | Apr 22 | Nov 14 |
| 2020 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 | Mar 7 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Nov 1 | Apr 1 | Nov 2 |
| 2018 | Apr 17 | Nov 10 | Mar 22 | Nov 10 |
| 2016 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 | Mar 5 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Mar 29 | Nov 13 | Mar 29 | Nov 14 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | Apr 20 | Oct 25 | Mar 28 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Apr 24 | Oct 30 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 21 | Feb 26 | Nov 10 |
| 2010 | Mar 27 | Oct 30 | Mar 8 | Nov 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 18 | Apr 8 | Nov 27 |
| 2008 | Apr 16 | Oct 27 | Mar 25 | Oct 28 |
| 2007 | Apr 16 | Nov 4 | Apr 8 | Nov 7 |
| 2006 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Nov 3 |
"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.