Artesia 6S, NM: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00290600, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,366 ft, 32.755, -104.384. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 13	Oct 27
Earliest	Mar 20 (1963)	Sep 28 (1968)
Latest	May 7 (1975)	Nov 27 (1965)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	71	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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.

Chart

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	Mar 31	Oct 29	Mar 22	Oct 30
2024	Apr 10	Nov 9	Apr 10	Nov 9
2022	Apr 10	Oct 25	Mar 25	Nov 12
2021	Apr 1	Oct 16	Mar 26	Nov 13
2020	Apr 13	Oct 27	Feb 28	Oct 27
2019	Apr 14	Oct 25	Mar 16	Oct 25
2018	Apr 15	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 13
2017	Apr 30	Oct 28	Mar 9	Nov 19
2016	Apr 4	Nov 18	Apr 2	Nov 19
2015	Apr 29	Nov 6	Mar 16	Nov 12
2014	Apr 16	Nov 11	Apr 15	Nov 12
2013	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 19	Oct 19
2012	Mar 23	Oct 27	Mar 11	Oct 27
2011	May 4	Oct 19	Mar 10	Nov 3
2010	Apr 10	Oct 28	Apr 9	Nov 10
2009	Apr 18	Oct 27	Apr 8	Oct 30
2008	Apr 19	Oct 23	Apr 19	Oct 23
2007	Apr 15	Oct 23	Mar 31	Oct 23
2006	Mar 25	no data	Mar 25	no data
2005	Apr 12	Nov 1	Apr 2	Nov 14
2004	Apr 13	Nov 2	Feb 27	Nov 3
2003	no data	Oct 27	no data	Nov 19
2002	Mar 27	Nov 5	Mar 22	Nov 7
2001	Mar 20	Nov 20	Feb 19	Nov 20
2000	Apr 5	Oct 10	Apr 5	Nov 9
1999	Apr 18	Oct 18	Mar 14	Nov 3
1998	Apr 21	Nov 10	Apr 19	Nov 11
1997	Apr 15	Oct 15	Mar 7	Oct 26
1996	Apr 7	Oct 22	Mar 26	Oct 24
1995	Apr 24	Oct 20	Apr 23	Nov 5
1994	Apr 13	Oct 10	Apr 7	Nov 21
1993	Apr 10	Oct 22	Apr 9	Oct 22
1992	Apr 4	Oct 8	Mar 20	Nov 4
1991	Apr 15	Oct 29	Apr 1	Oct 29
1990	Mar 20	Oct 22	Mar 20	Oct 22
1989	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 11	Oct 19
1988	Apr 13	Nov 6	Apr 3	Nov 16
1987	Apr 23	Nov 10	Apr 9	Nov 10
1986	Apr 20	Oct 14	Mar 23	Nov 9
1985	Apr 24	Nov 2	Mar 31	Nov 2
1984	Apr 27	Oct 19	Apr 4	Nov 10
1983	Apr 16	Nov 10	Apr 15	Nov 16
1982	Apr 21	Oct 9	Mar 24	Oct 29
1981	Apr 5	Oct 24	Mar 23	Oct 26
1980	no data	Oct 24	no data	Oct 24
1979	Apr 14	Oct 23	Apr 13	Oct 31
1978	Apr 18	Nov 16	Mar 18	Nov 17
1977	Apr 6	Oct 12	Apr 4	Nov 2
1976	Apr 19	Oct 8	Apr 1	Oct 8
1975	May 7	Oct 16	Apr 9	Oct 26
1974	Apr 17	Nov 5	Apr 6	Nov 25
1973	Apr 27	Oct 28	Apr 10	Nov 15
1972	Apr 22	Nov 1	Apr 1	Nov 1
1971	Apr 20	Oct 20	Apr 7	Nov 2
1970	May 1	Oct 9	Apr 5	Oct 28
1969	Mar 28	Oct 13	Mar 27	Nov 3
1968	Apr 29	Sep 28	Mar 23	Oct 18
1967	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 31
1966	Mar 24	no data	Mar 23	no data
1965	Mar 26	Nov 27	Mar 26	Nov 27
1964	Apr 8	Nov 6	Apr 8	Nov 20
1963	Mar 20	Nov 13	Mar 20	Nov 26
1962	Mar 25	Nov 8	Mar 16	Nov 18
1961	Apr 12	Nov 3	Apr 9	Nov 14
1960	Apr 3	Oct 31	Apr 3	Nov 16
1959	Apr 13	Nov 5	Apr 13	Nov 6
1958	Apr 14	Nov 1	Mar 12	Nov 18
1957	Apr 8	Oct 26	Mar 7	Nov 8
1956	Apr 10	no data	Apr 4	no data
1955	Mar 29	Oct 30	Mar 28	Nov 9
1954	Mar 27	Nov 3	Mar 14	Nov 20
1953	Apr 30	Nov 8	Mar 6	Nov 9
1952	Apr 10	Nov 5	Mar 24	Nov 11
1951	Apr 13	Nov 2	Apr 12	Nov 2

"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.