Carthage, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00411500, 1952 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 305 ft, 32.161, -94.340. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 13	Nov 14
Earliest	Jan 28 (2017)	Oct 8 (1952)
Latest	Apr 12 (1989)	Dec 14 (1998)
Trend	2.4 days earlier per decade	1.7 days later per decade
Years with data	66	68, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 29.

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 22	Dec 2	Feb 22	Dec 15
2024	Feb 20	Dec 1	Feb 20	none
2023	Mar 21	Nov 2	Feb 18	Dec 11
2022	Mar 14	Oct 19	Mar 12	Dec 18
2021	Mar 3	none	Feb 22	none
2020	Feb 28	Dec 1	Feb 28	none
2019	Mar 7	Nov 1	Mar 6	Nov 12
2018	Feb 12	Nov 14	Feb 9	Nov 15
2017	Jan 28	Oct 29	Jan 9	Dec 9
2016	Mar 22	Nov 20	Feb 6	Dec 9
2015	Mar 7	Nov 22	Mar 7	none
2014	Mar 7	Nov 14	Mar 4	Nov 14
2013	Mar 28	Nov 13	none	Nov 14
2012	Feb 25	Nov 13	Feb 13	Dec 11
2011	Feb 12	Nov 28	Feb 12	Dec 8
2010	Mar 4	Nov 27	Mar 3	Dec 7
2009	Mar 3	Dec 5	Mar 2	Dec 5
2008	Mar 9	Nov 16	Feb 14	Dec 6
2007	Mar 6	Dec 4	Feb 17	Dec 5
2006	no data	Nov 17	no data	Nov 21
2000	Mar 13	Nov 10	Feb 6	Nov 15
1999	Mar 15	Nov 3	Mar 15	Dec 6
1998	Mar 13	Dec 14	Mar 12	Dec 23
1997	Feb 15	Nov 16	Feb 12	Nov 16
1996	Apr 8	Nov 27	Mar 11	Dec 17
1995	Mar 10	Nov 11	Mar 9	Nov 12
1994	Mar 31	Dec 1	Feb 24	Dec 12
1993	Mar 15	Oct 31	Mar 14	Oct 31
1992	Mar 12	Nov 5	Mar 11	Nov 28
1991	Mar 11	Nov 2	Feb 16	Nov 4
1990	Mar 21	Nov 6	Jan 13	Nov 30
1989	Apr 12	Oct 20	Mar 9	Oct 20
1988	Mar 20	Nov 17	Mar 19	Nov 23
1987	Apr 5	Nov 11	Apr 5	Nov 11
1986	Mar 22	Nov 13	Mar 1	Nov 14
1985	Feb 17	Dec 2	Feb 14	Dec 2
1984	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 2	Nov 22
1983	Mar 23	Nov 24	Mar 22	Nov 29
1982	Mar 8	Oct 26	Feb 14	Dec 12
1981	Feb 16	Nov 21	Feb 16	Nov 21
1980	Mar 4	Oct 25	Mar 4	Nov 20
1979	Mar 5	Nov 14	Feb 19	Nov 30
1978	Mar 17	Dec 4	Mar 10	Dec 9
1977	Mar 7	Nov 10	Feb 27	Dec 6
1976	Mar 17	Oct 20	Feb 8	Nov 13
1975	Apr 3	Nov 14	Feb 8	Nov 23
1974	Mar 25	Nov 15	Feb 26	Nov 30
1973	Apr 11	Dec 6	Feb 16	Dec 7
1972	Mar 3	Nov 16	Feb 9	Dec 1
1971	Apr 7	Nov 25	Mar 8	none
1970	Mar 22	Nov 16	Feb 10	Nov 16
1969	Mar 11	Nov 15	Mar 11	Nov 15
1968	Mar 24	Nov 12	Mar 13	Nov 12
1967	no data	Nov 4	no data	Nov 4
1965	Mar 27	Oct 25	Mar 21	Dec 1
1964	Mar 26	Nov 21	Feb 28	Nov 22
1963	Mar 6	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 24
1962	Apr 2	Dec 6	Mar 6	Dec 10
1961	Feb 4	Nov 9	Jan 30	Nov 30
1960	Mar 18	Nov 11	Mar 4	Nov 11
1959	Mar 17	Nov 6	Feb 6	Nov 6
1958	Mar 19	Nov 29	Feb 18	Nov 29
1957	Mar 8	Oct 27	Mar 8	Dec 11
1956	Mar 20	Nov 9	Jan 20	Nov 27
1955	Mar 29	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 4
1954	Mar 16	Oct 30	Feb 8	Dec 7
1953	Feb 23	Oct 30	Feb 22	Dec 15
1952	Mar 23	Oct 8	Feb 17	Oct 24

"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.