Acton Rch, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00410040, 1996 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,010 ft, 30.352, -101.252. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 1	Nov 6
Earliest	Feb 16 (2017)	Oct 20 (1999)
Latest	Apr 17 (1999)	Nov 28 (2001)
Trend	12.0 days earlier per decade	2.9 days later per decade
Years with data	13	14

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 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.

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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
2019	no data	Oct 26	no data	Oct 26
2017	Feb 16	Oct 28	Feb 1	Oct 28
2016	Apr 4	Nov 19	Feb 25	Dec 1
2015	no data	Nov 22	no data	Nov 22
2014	no data	Nov 12	no data	Nov 13
2009	no data	Oct 31	no data	Nov 17
2007	Apr 15	no data	Mar 5	no data
2006	Mar 26	no data	Mar 25	no data
2005	Apr 3	no data	Apr 2	no data
2004	Mar 1	Nov 4	Feb 17	Dec 1
2003	Apr 10	Nov 19	Mar 31	Nov 19
2002	Mar 22	Nov 7	Mar 5	Nov 17
2001	Mar 20	Nov 28	Feb 10	Nov 28
2000	Mar 18	Nov 8	Mar 12	Nov 8
1999	Apr 17	Oct 20	Mar 16	Nov 25
1998	Apr 1	no data	Mar 10	no data
1997	Apr 14	Oct 27	Feb 22	Oct 27
1996	no data	Oct 23	no data	Oct 23

"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.