Last Frost Day

Frost history / Abernathy, TX

Abernathy, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00410012, 1979 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,368 ft, 33.834, -101.844. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 29
EarliestMar 16 (2017)Oct 8 (2012)
LatestMay 4 (2013)Nov 18 (2016)
Trend2.2 days earlier per decade0.8 days earlier per decade
Years with data2223

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15198019902000201020202004: Apr 142005: Apr 132006: Mar 262007: Apr 122008: Apr 292009: Apr 82010: Apr 92011: May 42012: Mar 212013: May 42014: Apr 162015: Mar 272016: Apr 32017: Mar 162018: Apr 152019: Apr 142020: Apr 152021: Apr 222022: Apr 92023: Apr 82024: Apr 42025: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26198019902000201020201979: Nov 12003: Nov 52004: Nov 22005: Nov 142007: Oct 232008: Oct 232009: Oct 112010: Nov 52011: Oct 282012: Oct 82013: Oct 192014: Nov 112015: Nov 62016: Nov 182017: Oct 282018: Oct 152019: Oct 112020: Oct 242021: Nov 42022: Nov 52023: Oct 292024: Nov 12025: Oct 29

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 7Oct 29Mar 21Nov 10
2024Apr 4Nov 1Mar 29Nov 29
2023Apr 8Oct 29Apr 8Oct 30
2022Apr 9Nov 5Mar 24Nov 12
2021Apr 22Nov 4Apr 21Nov 5
2020Apr 15Oct 24Apr 15Oct 26
2019Apr 14Oct 11Apr 1Oct 25
2018Apr 15Oct 15Apr 8Nov 10
2017Mar 16Oct 28Mar 7Nov 9
2016Apr 3Nov 18Mar 19Nov 19
2015Mar 27Nov 6Mar 7Nov 21
2014Apr 16Nov 11Apr 16Nov 11
2013May 4Oct 19May 4Nov 13
2012Mar 21Oct 8Mar 4Oct 27
2011May 4Oct 28Mar 15Nov 3
2010Apr 9Nov 5Apr 9Nov 13
2009Apr 8Oct 11Apr 8Oct 30
2008Apr 29Oct 23Mar 24Oct 25
2007Apr 12Oct 23Apr 9Nov 15
2006Mar 26no dataMar 25no data
2005Apr 13Nov 14Mar 18Nov 16
2004Apr 14Nov 2Apr 14Nov 12
2003no dataNov 5no dataNov 23
1979no dataNov 1no dataNov 2

"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.