Frost history / Cedar Creek 5 S, TX
Cedar Creek 5 S, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00411541, 2002 to 2013, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 436 ft, 30.016, -97.479. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 19 | Nov 16 |
| Earliest | Feb 27 (2004) | Oct 25 (2005) |
| Latest | Apr 17 (2011) | Dec 6 (2002) |
| Trend | 14.4 days later per decade | 21.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 12 | 11 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 28.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Nov 13 | Mar 27 | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | Mar 4 | Oct 29 | Feb 13 | Nov 28 |
| 2011 | Apr 17 | Oct 28 | Mar 6 | Nov 4 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Oct 30 | Feb 26 | Nov 19 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Dec 5 | Mar 3 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 9 | Nov 16 | Feb 28 | Nov 16 |
| 2007 | Mar 7 | Dec 4 | Mar 5 | Dec 4 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Nov 17 | Feb 19 | Dec 1 |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Oct 25 | Jan 18 | Dec 6 |
| 2004 | Feb 27 | no data | Feb 7 | no data |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 24 | Feb 26 | Nov 29 |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | Dec 6 | Mar 6 | none |
"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.