Frost history / Gallup Sand & Gravel, NM
Gallup Sand & Gravel, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00293428, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 6,577 ft, 35.528, -108.703. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 15 | Oct 10 |
| Earliest | Apr 27 (2006) | Sep 18 (2006) |
| Latest | Jun 9 (2020) | Oct 30 (2005) |
| Trend | 3.5 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 21 | 22 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.
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 | May 20 | Oct 5 | May 20 | Oct 19 |
| 2024 | Apr 29 | Oct 19 | Apr 11 | Oct 31 |
| 2023 | May 6 | Oct 13 | Apr 27 | Oct 13 |
| 2022 | May 13 | Oct 20 | May 5 | Oct 23 |
| 2021 | May 24 | Oct 12 | Apr 20 | Oct 13 |
| 2020 | Jun 9 | Sep 30 | Apr 16 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | May 24 | Oct 4 | Apr 15 | Oct 4 |
| 2018 | May 4 | Oct 19 | Apr 15 | Nov 2 |
| 2017 | May 20 | Sep 25 | Apr 30 | Oct 15 |
| 2016 | May 2 | Oct 4 | Apr 26 | Oct 20 |
| 2015 | May 10 | Oct 27 | Apr 20 | Oct 31 |
| 2014 | May 15 | Oct 13 | May 14 | Nov 3 |
| 2013 | May 21 | Sep 28 | May 3 | Sep 28 |
| 2012 | May 28 | Oct 8 | May 27 | Oct 19 |
| 2011 | May 31 | Oct 8 | May 3 | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | no data | Oct 25 | no data | Oct 25 |
| 2009 | Apr 27 | Oct 1 | Apr 17 | Oct 2 |
| 2008 | May 23 | Oct 12 | May 3 | Oct 12 |
| 2007 | May 7 | Oct 7 | Apr 22 | Oct 7 |
| 2006 | Apr 27 | Sep 18 | Apr 19 | Oct 19 |
| 2005 | May 16 | Oct 30 | Apr 22 | Oct 31 |
| 2004 | May 1 | Oct 14 | Apr 12 | Oct 23 |
"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.