Frost history / Quemado, NM
Quemado, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00297180, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 6,878 ft, 34.345, -108.492. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jun 9 | Sep 21 |
| Earliest | May 18 (1958) | Aug 17 (1985) |
| Latest | Jul 13 (1987) | Oct 11 (2001) |
| Trend | 1.0 days earlier per decade | 1.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 43 | 45 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 28 and the median first fall date is Oct 3.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | May 31 | no data | May 23 | no data |
| 2023 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 3 |
| 2021 | May 27 | no data | May 24 | no data |
| 2019 | May 31 | Sep 21 | May 29 | Oct 11 |
| 2017 | Jun 14 | no data | May 21 | no data |
| 2016 | no data | Sep 17 | no data | Sep 24 |
| 2015 | May 28 | no data | May 24 | no data |
| 2014 | May 25 | Sep 30 | May 25 | Oct 3 |
| 2013 | May 28 | Sep 23 | May 21 | Sep 28 |
| 2012 | May 31 | Oct 1 | May 29 | Oct 8 |
| 2011 | Jun 12 | Sep 23 | Jun 3 | Oct 8 |
| 2010 | Jun 16 | Sep 11 | May 25 | Oct 9 |
| 2009 | no data | Sep 22 | no data | Oct 2 |
| 2008 | Jun 13 | Sep 14 | May 14 | Oct 12 |
| 2007 | no data | Sep 25 | no data | Sep 25 |
| 2006 | Jun 1 | Sep 17 | May 6 | Sep 18 |
| 2005 | no data | Sep 14 | no data | Oct 12 |
| 2004 | no data | Sep 5 | no data | Sep 22 |
| 2003 | no data | Sep 21 | no data | Oct 21 |
| 2002 | May 25 | Oct 3 | May 23 | Oct 4 |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 11 | no data | Oct 11 |
| 2000 | May 19 | Oct 5 | May 19 | Oct 17 |
| 1991 | Jun 24 | Oct 2 | May 29 | Oct 5 |
| 1989 | Jun 9 | Sep 9 | Jun 3 | Sep 14 |
| 1988 | Jun 9 | Sep 19 | Jun 1 | Sep 23 |
| 1987 | Jul 13 | Sep 10 | May 28 | Sep 21 |
| 1986 | May 30 | Sep 6 | May 18 | Sep 10 |
| 1985 | Jun 27 | Aug 17 | Jun 27 | Sep 30 |
| 1984 | Jun 17 | Sep 29 | May 16 | Sep 30 |
| 1983 | Jun 20 | Sep 21 | Jun 5 | Oct 12 |
| 1982 | Jun 9 | Oct 2 | Jun 9 | Oct 2 |
| 1981 | Jun 16 | Oct 5 | Jun 16 | Oct 17 |
| 1980 | Jun 7 | Sep 22 | Jun 4 | Oct 4 |
| 1979 | Jun 20 | Oct 5 | May 14 | Oct 6 |
| 1978 | Jun 4 | Oct 7 | May 28 | Oct 12 |
| 1977 | May 28 | Sep 18 | May 27 | Oct 12 |
| 1976 | Jun 25 | Sep 28 | Jun 25 | Oct 5 |
| 1975 | Jun 12 | Sep 23 | Jun 11 | Oct 5 |
| 1974 | Jun 10 | no data | Jun 9 | no data |
| 1973 | Jun 20 | no data | May 3 | no data |
| 1972 | Jun 27 | Sep 21 | May 26 | Sep 26 |
| 1971 | Jun 8 | Sep 16 | Jun 5 | Oct 2 |
| 1970 | Jun 18 | Sep 15 | Jun 12 | Sep 23 |
| 1968 | no data | Sep 17 | no data | Sep 17 |
| 1967 | no data | Oct 7 | no data | Oct 7 |
| 1966 | Jun 4 | no data | Jun 4 | no data |
| 1963 | Jun 22 | no data | Jun 9 | no data |
| 1962 | Jun 17 | Oct 6 | Jun 7 | Oct 9 |
| 1961 | Jun 4 | Sep 4 | Jun 3 | Sep 4 |
| 1960 | May 26 | Aug 18 | May 26 | Sep 23 |
| 1959 | Jun 1 | Sep 14 | May 31 | Sep 22 |
| 1958 | May 18 | Sep 15 | May 15 | Sep 25 |
| 1952 | May 25 | no data | May 24 | no data |
| 1951 | no data | Sep 13 | no data | Oct 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.