Frost history / Abilene 6ESE, TX
Abilene 6ESE, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00410013, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,802 ft, 32.432, -99.632. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 30 | Nov 12 |
| Earliest | Feb 13 (2012) | Oct 8 (2012) |
| Latest | Apr 22 (2021) | Nov 30 (2004) |
| Trend | 7.1 days later per decade | 6.6 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 21 | 21 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 18.
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 | Oct 31 | Mar 20 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Mar 29 | Nov 26 | Feb 19 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 20 | Oct 30 | Feb 18 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Mar 26 | Nov 12 | Mar 24 | Nov 12 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 19 | Mar 2 | Nov 22 |
| 2020 | Apr 15 | Oct 26 | Feb 28 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | Apr 3 | Oct 13 | Mar 10 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Apr 15 | Nov 10 | Apr 15 | Nov 13 |
| 2017 | Mar 2 | no data | Mar 2 | no data |
| 2016 | Apr 2 | Nov 18 | Mar 20 | Nov 18 |
| 2015 | no data | Nov 21 | no data | Nov 21 |
| 2014 | Apr 15 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 2013 | Apr 11 | Nov 7 | Mar 26 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Oct 8 | Feb 13 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | Mar 30 | Nov 4 | Mar 6 | Nov 4 |
| 2009 | Apr 7 | no data | Apr 7 | no data |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Nov 7 | Mar 8 | Nov 21 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 22 | no data | Nov 26 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Nov 2 | Mar 25 | Nov 30 |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 | Feb 10 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | Feb 27 | Nov 30 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | Nov 25 | Apr 9 | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | Mar 26 | Nov 27 | Mar 26 | Nov 27 |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 20 | no data | Nov 28 |
"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.