Frost history / Ft Sumner 5 S, NM
Ft Sumner 5 S, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00293296, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 4,050 ft, 34.394, -104.250. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 16 | Oct 21 |
| Earliest | Apr 7 (2009) | Sep 29 (2020) |
| Latest | May 3 (2013) | Oct 28 (2010) |
| Trend | 1.4 days earlier per decade | 5.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 18 | 16 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.
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 | Apr 8 | Oct 22 | Apr 7 | Oct 29 |
| 2024 | Apr 10 | no data | Apr 10 | no data |
| 2023 | Apr 29 | Oct 15 | Apr 29 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 15 | Oct 25 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 |
| 2021 | Apr 24 | Oct 11 | Apr 21 | Oct 11 |
| 2020 | Apr 17 | Sep 29 | Apr 17 | Oct 24 |
| 2019 | no data | Oct 11 | no data | Oct 11 |
| 2016 | Apr 7 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 2015 | Apr 29 | no data | Apr 18 | no data |
| 2014 | Apr 15 | Oct 14 | Apr 15 | Nov 7 |
| 2013 | May 3 | Oct 5 | May 3 | Oct 19 |
| 2012 | Apr 16 | Oct 8 | Mar 13 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | May 3 | Oct 19 | May 3 | Oct 19 |
| 2010 | May 1 | Oct 28 | Apr 8 | Oct 28 |
| 2009 | Apr 7 | Oct 27 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 |
| 2008 | May 3 | Oct 23 | Apr 28 | Oct 23 |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Oct 22 | Apr 14 | Oct 22 |
| 2006 | Apr 9 | Oct 23 | Mar 25 | Oct 28 |
| 2005 | Apr 13 | Oct 25 | Apr 11 | Nov 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.