Frost history / Reserve Rs, NM
Reserve Rs, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00297386, 1954 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 5,847 ft, 33.716, -108.777. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jun 4 | Oct 4 |
| Earliest | May 11 (1984) | Sep 3 (1965) |
| Latest | Jul 3 (1992) | Oct 18 (2025) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 33 | 27 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 21 and the median first fall date is Oct 14.
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 27 | Oct 18 | May 1 | Oct 29 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 1 | no data | Oct 13 |
| 1992 | Jul 3 | no data | Jun 17 | no data |
| 1991 | no data | Oct 4 | no data | Oct 15 |
| 1989 | May 31 | no data | May 14 | no data |
| 1988 | Jun 12 | no data | May 31 | no data |
| 1987 | May 29 | Oct 1 | May 29 | Oct 19 |
| 1986 | May 22 | Sep 17 | May 15 | Sep 30 |
| 1985 | Jun 2 | Sep 24 | May 15 | Oct 23 |
| 1984 | May 11 | Oct 7 | May 1 | Oct 16 |
| 1983 | Jun 5 | Oct 12 | Jun 5 | Nov 9 |
| 1982 | Jun 9 | Sep 29 | Jun 2 | Oct 2 |
| 1981 | Jun 16 | no data | May 22 | no data |
| 1980 | Jun 5 | no data | Jun 4 | no data |
| 1979 | May 14 | Oct 6 | May 13 | Oct 6 |
| 1978 | May 30 | Oct 5 | May 20 | Oct 11 |
| 1977 | May 28 | Oct 12 | May 22 | Oct 15 |
| 1976 | Jun 26 | no data | Jun 12 | no data |
| 1975 | Jun 5 | Sep 23 | May 23 | Oct 14 |
| 1974 | Jun 2 | no data | May 25 | no data |
| 1973 | Jun 18 | Sep 28 | May 5 | Sep 28 |
| 1972 | no data | Sep 26 | no data | Oct 23 |
| 1971 | Jun 6 | no data | Jun 5 | no data |
| 1970 | May 15 | Sep 23 | May 5 | Sep 23 |
| 1969 | Jun 5 | Oct 6 | May 10 | Oct 13 |
| 1968 | Jun 10 | Sep 17 | May 16 | Oct 16 |
| 1966 | Jun 6 | no data | Apr 23 | no data |
| 1965 | Jun 26 | Sep 3 | May 24 | Sep 3 |
| 1964 | May 29 | Oct 8 | May 10 | Oct 20 |
| 1963 | Jun 10 | Oct 5 | May 13 | Nov 2 |
| 1962 | Jun 17 | Oct 7 | May 25 | Oct 10 |
| 1961 | Jun 4 | Sep 4 | May 21 | Oct 3 |
| 1960 | May 26 | Oct 5 | May 25 | Oct 14 |
| 1957 | May 27 | no data | May 16 | no data |
| 1956 | May 27 | Oct 11 | May 15 | Oct 14 |
| 1955 | Jun 4 | Sep 25 | Jun 3 | Sep 30 |
| 1954 | no data | Oct 12 | no data | Oct 19 |
"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.