Athens, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00410404, 1954 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 448 ft, 32.163, -95.830. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 17	Nov 13
Earliest	Feb 8 (1961)	Oct 10 (2000)
Latest	Apr 16 (2014)	Dec 25 (1965)
Trend	2.0 days earlier per decade	0.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data	68	61

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 22.

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
2024	Feb 20	no data	Feb 19	no data
2023	Mar 20	Nov 2	Feb 18	Dec 11
2022	Mar 13	Nov 13	Mar 13	Nov 13
2021	Feb 24	Nov 13	Feb 13	Dec 12
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	Feb 28	Dec 1
2019	Mar 7	Oct 31	Mar 6	Nov 1
2018	Feb 13	Nov 13	Feb 12	Nov 14
2017	Feb 17	Oct 28	Jan 27	Oct 29
2016	Mar 22	Nov 20	Feb 26	Nov 20
2015	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 7	none
2014	Apr 16	Nov 13	Mar 7	Nov 14
2013	Mar 27	Nov 13	Mar 26	Nov 14
2012	Mar 4	Nov 13	Feb 25	Dec 11
2011	Mar 11	Nov 4	Mar 6	Nov 28
2010	Mar 22	Nov 6	Mar 3	Nov 27
2009	no data	Dec 3	no data	Dec 5
2008	Mar 9	Oct 28	Mar 8	Nov 16
2007	Mar 7	Oct 24	Mar 6	Nov 16
2006	Mar 25	Nov 17	Feb 20	Nov 21
2005	Mar 17	no data	Mar 17	no data
2004	Feb 27	Nov 25	Feb 14	Dec 1
2003	Mar 7	Nov 24	Feb 26	Nov 24
2002	Mar 22	Nov 17	Mar 5	Nov 28
2001	Feb 18	Nov 21	Feb 11	Nov 21
2000	Mar 12	Oct 10	Feb 6	Nov 21
1999	Mar 15	Nov 3	Jan 16	Nov 3
1998	Mar 12	Dec 13	Mar 11	Dec 22
1997	Feb 11	Nov 16	Jan 30	Nov 16
1996	Apr 3	no data	Mar 21	no data
1994	Mar 10	no data	Mar 9	no data
1993	Mar 15	Oct 30	Mar 14	Oct 31
1992	Mar 11	Nov 7	Jan 19	Nov 28
1991	Feb 26	Nov 1	Feb 16	Nov 3
1990	Mar 20	Dec 4	Feb 5	Dec 5
1989	Mar 23	Oct 20	Mar 8	Oct 20
1988	Mar 19	Nov 17	Mar 14	Dec 1
1987	Apr 4	Nov 11	Apr 3	Nov 11
1986	Mar 21	Nov 13	Mar 1	Nov 13
1985	Feb 16	Dec 1	Feb 16	Dec 1
1984	Apr 16	Nov 21	Mar 7	Nov 22
1983	Mar 28	Nov 16	Mar 11	Nov 29
1982	Mar 8	Nov 4	Mar 7	Nov 13
1981	Mar 20	Nov 21	Feb 15	Nov 21
1980	Apr 14	Oct 25	Mar 18	Oct 30
1979	Mar 25	Nov 13	Mar 5	Nov 14
1978	Mar 27	Nov 8	Mar 10	Dec 8
1977	Mar 22	Nov 10	Feb 27	Nov 10
1976	Mar 17	Oct 21	Feb 23	Nov 5
1975	Apr 3	Nov 14	Mar 14	Nov 14
1974	Mar 22	Nov 15	Feb 25	Nov 26
1973	Apr 10	no data	Feb 19	no data
1972	Mar 31	no data	Mar 3	no data
1971	Apr 3	no data	Mar 8	no data
1970	Mar 21	Nov 5	Mar 21	Nov 16
1969	Mar 11	no data	Mar 11	no data
1968	Mar 23	Nov 12	Mar 13	Dec 8
1967	Mar 8	Dec 22	Mar 8	Dec 22
1966	Mar 24	Nov 2	Mar 6	Dec 11
1965	Mar 26	Dec 25	Mar 20	none
1964	Mar 26	Nov 21	Mar 10	Nov 22
1963	Feb 22	Nov 24	Feb 22	Dec 12
1962	Mar 16	Dec 6	Mar 2	Dec 12
1961	Feb 8	no data	Jan 30	no data
1960	Mar 18	Nov 10	Mar 4	Dec 17
1959	Mar 17	Nov 6	Feb 6	Nov 6
1958	Mar 19	Nov 19	Feb 16	Nov 29
1957	Mar 9	Oct 27	Mar 8	Dec 1
1956	no data	Nov 9	no data	Nov 27
1955	Mar 29	Nov 4	Mar 28	Nov 4
1954	Mar 15	Nov 5	Mar 14	Dec 30

"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.