Frost history / Houston, MO
Houston, MO: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00234019, 1953 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,224 ft, 37.319, -91.963. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 22 | Oct 15 |
| Earliest | Mar 11 (2012) | Sep 24 (1989) |
| Latest | May 15 (1959) | Nov 10 (2025) |
| Trend | 3.9 days earlier per decade | 2.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 38 | 37 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 5 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | no data | Apr 22 | no data |
| 2020 | Apr 15 | Oct 5 | Mar 7 | Oct 16 |
| 2019 | Apr 15 | Oct 12 | Apr 1 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Apr 20 | Oct 21 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Oct 28 | Mar 16 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Apr 10 | Nov 10 | Mar 22 | Nov 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 7 | Nov 10 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Apr 16 | Nov 2 |
| 2013 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Oct 26 |
| 2012 | Mar 11 | Oct 9 | Feb 14 | Oct 30 |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | Oct 22 | Mar 12 | Oct 30 |
| 2010 | Mar 27 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Nov 7 |
| 2009 | Apr 15 | Oct 18 | Mar 13 | Dec 5 |
| 1995 | May 2 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 1994 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 11 |
| 1993 | Apr 22 | Oct 10 | Apr 22 | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | May 8 | Sep 29 | Apr 28 | Oct 17 |
| 1991 | Apr 21 | no data | Mar 31 | no data |
| 1990 | Apr 13 | Oct 11 | Apr 12 | Oct 23 |
| 1989 | May 12 | Sep 24 | Apr 11 | Sep 25 |
| 1988 | Apr 24 | Oct 12 | Apr 23 | Oct 30 |
| 1974 | Apr 17 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 1972 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 9 | no data |
| 1971 | no data | Oct 15 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1970 | May 3 | Oct 17 | Apr 7 | Oct 17 |
| 1969 | May 11 | Oct 15 | Mar 31 | Oct 28 |
| 1968 | Apr 25 | no data | Apr 6 | no data |
| 1967 | May 4 | Sep 30 | Mar 22 | Oct 28 |
| 1966 | May 10 | Oct 6 | Apr 16 | Oct 16 |
| 1965 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 | Mar 31 | Oct 13 |
| 1964 | Apr 15 | Oct 6 | Apr 9 | Oct 6 |
| 1963 | May 1 | Sep 30 | May 1 | Nov 1 |
| 1962 | Apr 16 | Oct 24 | Apr 16 | Oct 24 |
| 1961 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 15 |
| 1960 | May 13 | no data | May 12 | no data |
| 1959 | May 15 | Oct 9 | Apr 14 | Oct 19 |
| 1958 | May 7 | Oct 1 | Apr 8 | Oct 2 |
| 1957 | May 5 | Oct 19 | Apr 14 | Oct 19 |
| 1956 | Apr 23 | Oct 8 | Apr 22 | Nov 9 |
| 1955 | Apr 8 | Oct 15 | Apr 8 | Oct 19 |
| 1954 | May 4 | Oct 30 | May 4 | Oct 31 |
| 1953 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Oct 29 |
"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.