Frost history / Mountainair 8NW, NM
Mountainair 8NW, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00295968, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 6,672 ft, 34.624, -106.310. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 12 | Oct 11 |
| Earliest | Apr 21 (2012) | Sep 9 (2020) |
| Latest | Jun 1 (2011) | Oct 31 (2024) |
| Trend | 1.0 days later per decade | 8.0 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 28 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 12 | Oct 19 | Apr 30 | Oct 29 |
| 2024 | May 10 | Oct 31 | Apr 12 | Oct 31 |
| 2023 | May 6 | Oct 5 | Apr 30 | Oct 15 |
| 2022 | May 26 | Oct 19 | Apr 27 | Oct 29 |
| 2021 | May 11 | Oct 11 | Apr 25 | Oct 13 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Sep 9 | Apr 18 | Oct 24 |
| 2019 | May 28 | Oct 11 | Apr 15 | Oct 11 |
| 2018 | May 6 | Oct 11 | Apr 23 | Oct 15 |
| 2017 | May 25 | Oct 10 | May 1 | Oct 10 |
| 2015 | Apr 30 | no data | Apr 30 | no data |
| 2014 | May 16 | Oct 13 | May 15 | Oct 15 |
| 2013 | May 13 | Sep 29 | May 5 | Oct 6 |
| 2012 | Apr 21 | Oct 9 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 |
| 2011 | Jun 1 | Oct 10 | May 4 | Oct 19 |
| 2010 | May 26 | Oct 12 | May 2 | Oct 26 |
| 2009 | Apr 28 | Sep 22 | Apr 20 | 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.