Last Frost Day

Frost history / Arlington Six Flags, TX

Arlington Six Flags, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00410337, 1991 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 536 ft, 32.757, -97.074. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 3Nov 22
EarliestJan 24 (2005)Oct 24 (1995)
LatestApr 3 (1993)Dec 13 (2007)
Trend6.9 days earlier per decade10.7 days later per decade
Years with data1821

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 19 and the median first fall date is Dec 4.

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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15200020101993: Apr 31994: Mar 112000: Feb 52001: Feb 192002: Mar 232003: Mar 72004: Feb 272005: Jan 242006: Feb 212007: Mar 52008: Mar 92013: Mar 272014: Mar 62015: Feb 282016: Feb 52017: Jan 272018: Feb 222019: Mar 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26200020101991: Nov 11993: Oct 301995: Oct 241997: Nov 111999: Nov 32000: Nov 132001: Nov 212002: Dec 52003: Nov 242005: Dec 22006: Dec 12007: Dec 132008: Dec 42009: Dec 32012: Dec 102013: Nov 132014: Nov 122015: Nov 222016: Dec 92017: Dec 82018: Nov 13

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
2019Mar 7no dataMar 7no data
2018Feb 22Nov 13Feb 13Nov 14
2017Jan 27Dec 8Jan 9Dec 8
2016Feb 5Dec 9Jan 19Dec 9
2015Feb 28Nov 22Feb 28none
2014Mar 6Nov 12Mar 5Nov 17
2013Mar 27Nov 13Jan 17Nov 28
2012no dataDec 10no dataDec 11
2009no dataDec 3no dataDec 5
2008Mar 9Dec 4Mar 9Dec 4
2007Mar 5Dec 13Feb 17Dec 16
2006Feb 21Dec 1Feb 20Dec 1
2005Jan 24Dec 2Jan 24Dec 8
2004Feb 27no dataFeb 15no data
2003Mar 7Nov 24Feb 27none
2002Mar 23Dec 5Mar 10Dec 25
2001Feb 19Nov 21Feb 11Nov 29
2000Feb 5Nov 13Jan 30Dec 7
1999no dataNov 3no dataDec 6
1997no dataNov 11no dataNov 16
1995no dataOct 24no dataNov 11
1994Mar 11no dataMar 10no data
1993Apr 3Oct 30Mar 14Oct 31
1991no 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.