Bowie, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00410984, 1956 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,080 ft, 33.551, -97.847. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 21	Nov 10
Earliest	Feb 23 (2025)	Oct 9 (2012)
Latest	Apr 25 (2013)	Dec 25 (1965)
Trend	0.7 days later per decade	1.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data	64	63

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 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
2025	Feb 23	Nov 9	Feb 23	Nov 10
2024	Mar 11	Nov 26	Feb 19	Dec 7
2023	Mar 20	Oct 30	Mar 20	Nov 1
2022	Mar 13	Nov 12	Mar 13	Nov 12
2021	Apr 22	Nov 19	Feb 23	Nov 26
2020	Apr 16	Oct 27	Feb 28	Nov 30
2019	Apr 1	Oct 12	Mar 7	Oct 31
2018	Apr 16	Nov 10	Feb 22	Nov 13
2017	Mar 15	Oct 28	Feb 25	Dec 8
2016	Mar 21	Nov 20	Feb 27	Dec 9
2015	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	no data	Mar 13	no data
2013	Apr 25	Nov 13	Mar 27	Nov 13
2012	Feb 25	Oct 9	Feb 14	Nov 25
2011	Apr 5	Nov 4	Mar 7	Nov 5
2010	Mar 23	Nov 14	Mar 23	Nov 26
2009	no data	Nov 18	no data	Dec 3
2008	Apr 15	Nov 16	Mar 9	Nov 16
2007	Mar 6	Nov 16	Mar 5	Nov 22
2006	Mar 25	Nov 17	Mar 25	Nov 30
2005	Mar 18	Oct 24	Mar 18	Nov 16
2004	Feb 28	no data	Feb 27	no data
2000	Apr 4	Nov 8	Feb 13	Nov 12
1999	no data	Nov 2	no data	Dec 5
1998	Mar 21	Nov 5	Mar 14	Dec 21
1997	Apr 15	Oct 27	Apr 14	Nov 11
1996	Mar 27	Nov 2	Mar 27	Nov 2
1995	Mar 10	Nov 4	Mar 10	Nov 11
1994	Apr 7	no data	Apr 7	no data
1992	Mar 11	Nov 5	Feb 6	Nov 5
1991	Mar 14	Nov 1	Feb 15	Nov 1
1990	Mar 26	Nov 28	Mar 25	Dec 4
1989	Mar 22	Oct 19	Mar 21	Oct 19
1988	Mar 19	Nov 21	Mar 19	Nov 28
1987	Apr 3	Nov 11	Mar 30	Dec 15
1986	Mar 1	Nov 11	Feb 22	Nov 11
1985	Mar 31	Nov 20	Feb 15	Nov 20
1984	Mar 20	Nov 28	Feb 28	Dec 3
1983	Mar 21	Nov 11	Mar 21	Nov 27
1982	Mar 7	Nov 13	Mar 7	Nov 14
1981	Mar 19	Nov 10	Feb 13	Dec 17
1980	Mar 6	Nov 17	Mar 5	Nov 28
1979	Mar 4	Nov 10	Mar 4	Nov 29
1978	Mar 8	Dec 3	Mar 5	Dec 3
1977	Mar 4	Nov 10	Feb 27	Dec 6
1976	Mar 16	Oct 20	Feb 22	Nov 13
1975	Apr 3	Nov 13	Apr 3	Nov 21
1974	Mar 25	Nov 29	Mar 24	Nov 29
1973	Apr 10	Dec 5	Feb 15	Dec 10
1972	Mar 5	Nov 16	Mar 2	Nov 22
1971	Apr 6	Nov 7	Mar 7	none
1970	Apr 5	Nov 3	Mar 14	Nov 15
1969	Mar 13	Nov 19	Mar 13	Nov 19
1968	Mar 23	Nov 9	Mar 23	Nov 11
1967	Mar 8	Nov 4	Mar 8	Dec 3
1966	Mar 24	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 2
1965	Mar 27	Dec 25	Mar 26	Dec 25
1964	Mar 26	Nov 20	Mar 26	Nov 21
1963	Mar 6	Nov 23	Feb 22	Dec 11
1962	Mar 15	Dec 8	Mar 15	Dec 11
1961	Mar 21	Nov 3	Feb 28	Dec 10
1960	Mar 18	Nov 10	Mar 18	Nov 10
1959	Apr 13	Nov 6	Feb 21	Nov 6
1958	Mar 19	Nov 18	Mar 14	Nov 28
1957	Apr 14	Oct 27	Apr 13	Oct 27
1956	Mar 16	Nov 9	Mar 16	Nov 9

"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.