Last Frost Day

Frost history / Russellville 4 Sse, AL

Russellville 4 Sse, AL: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00063895, 2007 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 720 ft, 34.454, -87.710. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 28
EarliestMar 29 (2023)Oct 17 (2015)
LatestApr 22 (2021)Nov 10 (2016)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)2.4 days earlier per decade
Years with data1817

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 21 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)

Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202007: Apr 82008: Apr 162009: Apr 72010: Mar 302011: Apr 172012: Apr 122013: Apr 202014: Apr 162015: Apr 52016: Apr 92017: Apr 82018: Apr 172019: Apr 32020: Apr 162021: Apr 222022: Apr 192023: Mar 292024: Apr 6

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26201020202007: Oct 302008: Oct 282009: Oct 182010: Oct 302011: Oct 212012: Oct 302013: Oct 252014: Nov 12015: Oct 172016: Nov 102017: Oct 292018: Oct 222019: Oct 312020: Oct 172021: Nov 62022: Oct 182024: Oct 17

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
2024Apr 6Oct 17Mar 19Nov 29
2023Mar 29no dataMar 21no data
2022Apr 19Oct 18Mar 13Oct 19
2021Apr 22Nov 6Apr 3Nov 13
2020Apr 16Oct 17Feb 28Nov 16
2019Apr 3Oct 31Mar 20Nov 1
2018Apr 17Oct 22Apr 8Nov 10
2017Apr 8Oct 29Mar 16Nov 19
2016Apr 9Nov 10Mar 21Nov 11
2015Apr 5Oct 17Mar 29Oct 19
2014Apr 16Nov 1Apr 16Nov 2
2013Apr 20Oct 25Mar 28Oct 26
2012Apr 12Oct 30Mar 4Nov 1
2011Apr 17Oct 21Mar 11Oct 30
2010Mar 30Oct 30Mar 7Nov 6
2009Apr 7Oct 18Mar 4Nov 27
2008Apr 16Oct 28Mar 25Oct 28
2007Apr 8Oct 30Apr 8Nov 7

"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.