Frost history / Jemez Dam, NM
Jemez Dam, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00294366, 2003 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 5,388 ft, 35.389, -106.544. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 15 | Oct 27 |
| Earliest | Apr 7 (2023) | Oct 11 (2019) |
| Latest | Apr 29 (2008) | Nov 10 (2016) |
| Trend | 2.6 days earlier per decade | 6.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.
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 | Apr 8 | Oct 30 | Apr 3 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Apr 10 | Nov 1 | Mar 29 | Nov 1 |
| 2023 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2021 | Apr 20 | Nov 6 | Mar 26 | Nov 19 |
| 2020 | Apr 16 | no data | Apr 16 | no data |
| 2019 | Apr 15 | Oct 11 | Apr 15 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 14 | Oct 15 | Apr 14 | Nov 12 |
| 2017 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 2015 | Apr 18 | no data | Apr 18 | no data |
| 2014 | Apr 17 | Nov 6 | Mar 21 | Nov 12 |
| 2013 | Apr 25 | Oct 17 | Apr 25 | Oct 20 |
| 2012 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2008 | Apr 29 | Oct 23 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 |
| 2004 | Apr 12 | Oct 14 | Mar 1 | Nov 2 |
| 2003 | Apr 9 | Oct 14 | Apr 5 | Nov 5 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.