Center, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00411578, 1951 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 325 ft, 31.808, -94.164. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 17	Nov 12
Earliest	Jan 28 (2017)	Oct 13 (1977)
Latest	Apr 12 (1989)	Dec 15 (1998)
Trend	2.7 days earlier per decade	1.2 days later per decade
Years with data	68	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 24.

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
2019	Apr 3	Nov 1	Mar 7	Nov 1
2018	Feb 12	Nov 14	Jan 31	Nov 15
2017	Jan 28	Oct 29	Jan 9	Dec 9
2016	Mar 22	Nov 20	Feb 6	Dec 9
2015	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 8	none
2014	Mar 8	Nov 14	Mar 5	Nov 14
2013	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 4	Nov 13
2012	Feb 26	Nov 13	Feb 13	Dec 11
2011	Mar 7	Nov 18	Feb 13	Dec 8
2010	Mar 5	Nov 6	Mar 4	Dec 6
2009	Mar 4	Dec 5	Mar 3	Dec 5
2008	Mar 10	Oct 28	Feb 14	Nov 22
2007	Mar 6	Nov 16	Mar 5	Dec 4
2006	Mar 26	Nov 3	Feb 20	Nov 21
2005	Feb 11	Nov 17	Jan 25	Nov 17
2004	Feb 28	Dec 1	Feb 9	Dec 15
2003	Feb 27	Nov 24	Jan 25	Nov 25
2002	Mar 6	Nov 23	Mar 5	Dec 25
2001	Feb 19	Nov 21	Feb 11	Nov 21
2000	Mar 6	Nov 14	Feb 7	Nov 21
1999	Mar 16	Nov 3	Jan 16	Dec 7
1998	Mar 13	Dec 15	Mar 13	Dec 23
1997	Feb 16	Nov 8	Feb 12	Nov 16
1996	Apr 8	Nov 27	Mar 12	Nov 27
1995	Mar 11	Nov 12	Mar 10	Nov 29
1994	Apr 1	Dec 1	Feb 25	Dec 12
1993	Mar 15	Oct 31	Mar 15	Oct 31
1992	Mar 12	Nov 5	Mar 12	Nov 28
1991	Mar 11	Nov 1	Feb 17	Nov 4
1990	Mar 21	Nov 6	Jan 14	Nov 30
1989	Apr 12	Oct 20	Mar 10	Oct 20
1988	Mar 20	Nov 17	Mar 16	Nov 29
1987	Apr 6	Nov 11	Apr 1	Nov 12
1986	Mar 23	Nov 14	Mar 2	none
1985	Feb 16	Dec 2	Feb 14	Dec 2
1984	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 2	Nov 22
1983	Mar 23	Nov 24	Mar 23	Nov 29
1982	Mar 8	Oct 25	Mar 8	Dec 12
1981	Mar 25	Nov 21	Feb 15	Nov 21
1980	Mar 19	Oct 25	Mar 4	Nov 19
1979	Mar 6	Nov 4	Feb 19	Nov 14
1978	Mar 27	Oct 19	Mar 11	Dec 4
1977	Mar 23	Oct 13	Mar 8	Nov 11
1976	Mar 18	Oct 18	Mar 17	Oct 21
1975	Apr 5	Nov 13	Mar 15	Nov 14
1974	no data	Nov 15	no data	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 11	Feb 17	Dec 7
1972	Mar 31	Nov 16	Mar 3	Dec 1
1971	Apr 8	Nov 8	Apr 3	Nov 25
1970	Apr 4	Nov 16	Mar 14	Nov 16
1969	Mar 14	Nov 2	Mar 12	Nov 15
1968	Mar 24	Nov 12	Mar 13	Nov 12
1967	Mar 8	Nov 3	Mar 8	Nov 4
1966	Mar 25	Nov 2	Mar 7	Nov 3
1965	Mar 22	Nov 30	Mar 21	Dec 8
1964	Mar 26	Nov 22	Feb 28	Nov 22
1963	Mar 7	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 24
1962	Apr 2	Dec 6	Mar 16	Dec 6
1961	Mar 10	Nov 29	Jan 31	Nov 30
1960	Mar 18	Nov 11	Mar 18	Nov 30
1959	Mar 17	Nov 6	Mar 6	Nov 6
1958	Mar 19	Nov 29	Feb 19	Nov 29
1957	Mar 9	Oct 28	Mar 9	Dec 1
1956	Mar 9	Nov 9	Jan 21	Nov 18
1955	Mar 29	Oct 25	Mar 29	Nov 20
1954	Mar 17	Nov 5	Mar 16	Dec 7
1953	Feb 23	Nov 10	Feb 22	Dec 7
1952	Mar 24	Oct 23	Feb 17	Nov 21
1951	Mar 30	Nov 3	Feb 17	Nov 3

"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.