Frost history / Rio Rancho #2, NM
Rio Rancho #2, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00297481, 2008 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 5,290 ft, 35.252, -106.635. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 15 | Oct 30 |
| Earliest | Apr 4 (2012) | Oct 11 (2019) |
| Latest | May 4 (2011) | Nov 18 (2021) |
| Trend | 7.1 days earlier per decade | 4.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 16 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.
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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 | Apr 7 | Nov 10 | Mar 21 | Dec 2 |
| 2024 | Apr 8 | Oct 31 | Feb 25 | Nov 8 |
| 2023 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 | Apr 6 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 15 | Oct 25 | Mar 14 | Nov 11 |
| 2021 | Apr 20 | Nov 18 | Mar 26 | Nov 19 |
| 2020 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 | Feb 28 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | Apr 15 | Oct 11 | Mar 16 | Oct 25 |
| 2018 | Apr 14 | Nov 9 | Mar 21 | Nov 13 |
| 2017 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Apr 18 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 2014 | Apr 5 | Nov 5 | Mar 21 | Nov 16 |
| 2013 | Apr 25 | Oct 19 | Apr 20 | Nov 7 |
| 2012 | Apr 4 | Oct 27 | Mar 4 | Nov 11 |
| 2011 | May 4 | Oct 30 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 |
| 2010 | May 1 | Oct 27 | Apr 4 | Nov 10 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 30 |
| 2008 | Apr 12 | no data | Mar 15 | no data |
"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.