Frost history / Highland Home 2 S, AL
Highland Home 2 S, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00073802, 2009 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 614 ft, 31.916, -86.311. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 4 | Nov 27 |
| Earliest | Jan 22 (2024) | Nov 2 (2014) |
| Latest | Mar 27 (2013) | Dec 22 (2012) |
| Trend | 6.2 days earlier per decade | 5.6 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 16, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 19 and the median first fall date is Dec 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 | Jan 22 | Nov 30 | Jan 21 | Dec 6 |
| 2023 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 | Mar 20 | none |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 14 | Mar 13 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | none | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 22 | Nov 30 | Jan 22 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Feb 3 | Nov 15 | Jan 19 | Nov 27 |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Nov 20 | Jan 9 | Dec 10 |
| 2016 | Feb 14 | Dec 9 | Feb 10 | Dec 10 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 23 | Mar 6 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 26 | Nov 2 | Feb 27 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 | Feb 17 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Dec 22 | Feb 13 | Dec 30 |
| 2011 | Feb 12 | Dec 1 | Feb 11 | none |
| 2010 | Mar 4 | Nov 27 | Feb 25 | Dec 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 4 | Dec 5 | Mar 3 | Dec 6 |
"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.