Frost history / Fairhope 3 Ne, AL

Fairhope 3 Ne, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00063869, 2006 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 95 ft, 30.549, -87.876. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 13	Nov 16
Earliest	Feb 20 (2012)	Oct 29 (2008)
Latest	Apr 8 (2009)	Dec 19 (2015)
Trend	11.5 days earlier per decade	9.8 days later per decade
Years with data	18	19

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 18 and the median first fall date is Dec 1.

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	Feb 20	Dec 1	Feb 19	Dec 4
2023	Mar 20	Nov 29	Jan 15	none
2022	Mar 14	Nov 18	Feb 14	Dec 23
2021	Feb 21	Nov 14	Feb 17	none
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	none	Dec 1
2019	Mar 7	Nov 12	none	Nov 13
2018	Mar 15	Nov 16	Jan 19	none
2017	Mar 16	Dec 10	Jan 8	none
2016	Feb 28	Nov 21	Feb 10	none
2015	Mar 6	Dec 19	Mar 6	none
2014	Mar 26	Nov 14	Mar 26	Nov 18
2013	Mar 29	Nov 13	Mar 27	Nov 28
2012	Feb 20	Nov 24	Feb 12	Nov 25
2011	Mar 11	Nov 12	Feb 13	Nov 12
2010	Mar 7	Nov 7	Mar 7	Dec 2
2009	Apr 8	Nov 27	Mar 4	Dec 5
2008	Mar 26	Oct 29	Mar 25	Nov 18
2007	Mar 18	Nov 7	Mar 6	Dec 4
2006	no data	Nov 13	no data	Dec 4

"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.