State Univ, NM: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00298535, 1959 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,886 ft, 32.282, -106.760. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 26	Nov 6
Earliest	Feb 13 (2014)	Oct 8 (1976)
Latest	May 7 (1975)	Dec 8 (2017)
Trend	6.8 days earlier per decade	2.9 days later per decade
Years with data	63	65

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.

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.

Chart

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 8	Dec 6	Feb 2	Dec 31
2024	Feb 19	Nov 6	Feb 14	Dec 11
2023	Apr 6	Oct 31	Mar 4	Nov 24
2022	Mar 14	Nov 12	Mar 14	Nov 13
2021	Mar 18	Nov 26	Mar 3	Dec 20
2020	Feb 28	Oct 27	Feb 28	Oct 27
2019	Feb 25	Oct 25	Feb 25	Oct 31
2018	Mar 2	Nov 13	Mar 2	Nov 13
2017	Feb 26	Dec 8	Jan 30	Dec 8
2016	Feb 25	Nov 30	Feb 7	Nov 30
2015	Mar 7	Nov 18	Mar 7	Dec 3
2014	Feb 13	Nov 13	Feb 7	Nov 17
2013	Mar 25	Nov 24	Mar 1	Nov 26
2012	Mar 21	Nov 12	Mar 21	Nov 12
2011	Mar 1	Nov 8	Feb 28	Dec 5
2010	Mar 22	Nov 10	Mar 21	Nov 23
2009	Feb 23	Oct 30	Feb 15	Oct 30
2008	Mar 11	Nov 8	Mar 9	Nov 8
2007	Mar 30	Nov 25	Mar 6	Dec 15
2006	Mar 23	Nov 16	Feb 14	Nov 30
2005	Mar 18	Nov 16	Mar 17	Nov 28
2004	Mar 7	Nov 3	Feb 17	Nov 30
2003	Mar 31	Nov 24	Feb 10	Nov 24
2002	Mar 6	Nov 6	Mar 6	Nov 17
2001	Mar 16	Nov 20	Feb 17	Nov 28
2000	Mar 19	Nov 8	Feb 3	Nov 9
1999	no data	Nov 23	no data	Nov 24
1997	Mar 6	no data	Mar 2	no data
1996	no data	Oct 22	no data	Oct 23
1995	Mar 26	Nov 28	Jan 31	Dec 10
1994	Mar 29	Nov 5	Mar 29	Nov 21
1993	Mar 13	Oct 30	Mar 13	Oct 31
1992	Mar 10	Nov 6	Feb 25	Nov 22
1991	Mar 31	Oct 31	Mar 17	Nov 4
1990	Mar 17	Nov 4	Mar 15	Nov 28
1989	Mar 21	Oct 31	Mar 6	Nov 30
1988	Apr 1	Nov 16	Mar 20	Nov 17
1987	Apr 3	Nov 10	Mar 31	Nov 16
1986	Mar 22	Nov 24	Feb 12	Nov 24
1985	Mar 31	Nov 2	Mar 5	Nov 16
1984	Mar 31	Nov 11	Mar 7	Nov 27
1983	Apr 14	Nov 19	Apr 14	Nov 20
1982	Apr 3	Oct 29	Mar 7	Nov 4
1981	Mar 23	Oct 25	Mar 8	Nov 20
1980	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 3	Oct 29
1979	Apr 13	Oct 31	Apr 4	Oct 31
1978	Apr 10	Nov 17	Mar 8	Nov 28
1977	Apr 5	Nov 2	Apr 4	Nov 9
1976	Apr 18	Oct 8	Apr 1	Nov 13
1975	May 7	Nov 11	Apr 9	Nov 13
1974	Apr 5	Nov 1	Mar 11	Nov 25
1973	Apr 10	Oct 31	Apr 9	Oct 31
1972	Apr 22	Nov 1	Apr 15	Nov 13
1971	Apr 20	Oct 30	Mar 8	Nov 19
1970	Apr 30	Oct 9	Apr 30	Oct 28
1969	Mar 26	Oct 31	Mar 17	Nov 15
1968	Apr 24	Nov 6	Mar 22	Nov 6
1967	May 2	Oct 30	May 2	Oct 31
1966	Apr 6	Oct 15	Mar 10	Nov 2
1965	Apr 6	Oct 31	Mar 20	Nov 27
1964	Apr 26	Oct 21	Mar 26	Nov 6
1963	Mar 20	Nov 20	Mar 19	Nov 23
1962	Apr 1	Nov 8	Mar 21	Nov 9
1961	Apr 9	Nov 3	Mar 20	Nov 3
1960	Apr 3	Oct 31	Apr 3	Nov 9
1959	no data	Nov 6	no data	Nov 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 to 2020 frost probabilities.