Frost history / Santa Fe Seton, NM
Santa Fe Seton, NM: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00298088, 2002 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 7,000 ft, 35.601, -105.932. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 2 | Oct 15 |
| Earliest | Apr 4 (2002) | Sep 9 (2020) |
| Latest | May 22 (2019) | Nov 9 (2016) |
| Trend | 0.6 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 23 | 24 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 21 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.
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 21 | Oct 29 | Apr 21 | Oct 29 |
| 2024 | Apr 29 | Oct 30 | Apr 11 | Oct 31 |
| 2023 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 | Apr 23 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 24 | Oct 25 | Apr 15 | Oct 25 |
| 2021 | Apr 29 | Oct 13 | Apr 1 | Oct 13 |
| 2020 | Apr 16 | Sep 9 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | May 22 | Oct 11 | Apr 14 | Oct 11 |
| 2018 | May 4 | Oct 15 | May 3 | Oct 15 |
| 2017 | May 20 | Oct 10 | May 1 | Oct 10 |
| 2016 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Nov 18 |
| 2015 | May 17 | Oct 24 | Apr 18 | Nov 6 |
| 2014 | May 15 | Oct 14 | May 15 | Nov 12 |
| 2013 | May 4 | Sep 28 | May 4 | Oct 6 |
| 2012 | Apr 18 | Oct 13 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 |
| 2011 | May 20 | Oct 8 | May 4 | Oct 28 |
| 2010 | May 3 | Oct 26 | May 3 | Oct 26 |
| 2009 | Apr 20 | Sep 22 | Apr 20 | Oct 27 |
| 2008 | May 4 | Oct 13 | May 3 | Oct 23 |
| 2007 | May 7 | Oct 18 | Apr 23 | Oct 22 |
| 2006 | Apr 29 | Oct 19 | Apr 7 | Oct 19 |
| 2005 | May 1 | Oct 24 | Apr 12 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | May 2 | Oct 14 | May 2 | Nov 1 |
| 2003 | May 11 | Oct 26 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 |
| 2002 | Apr 4 | Oct 15 | Mar 27 | 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 to 2020 frost probabilities.