Cheapside, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00411671, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 365 ft, 29.309, -97.406. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Feb 25	Nov 30
Earliest	Jan 9 (2017)	Oct 29 (2017)
Latest	Mar 31 (2003)	Dec 23 (2022)
Trend	6.6 days earlier per decade	2.4 days later per decade
Years with data	19, 1 with no freeze	18, 2 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 21 and the median first fall date is Dec 12.

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
2025	Feb 23	Dec 15	Feb 21	none
2024	Feb 18	Nov 30	Jan 21	none
2023	Feb 11	Dec 11	none	none
2022	Mar 12	Dec 23	Mar 12	Dec 23
2021	Feb 20	none	Feb 20	none
2020	Feb 27	Dec 1	none	none
2019	Mar 6	Nov 1	Mar 6	Dec 18
2018	Feb 13	Nov 14	Jan 18	Nov 14
2017	Jan 9	Oct 29	Jan 9	none
2016	Feb 7	Dec 18	none	Dec 18
2015	Mar 7	none	Mar 7	none
2014	Mar 5	no data	Mar 4	no data
2013	Jan 18	Nov 28	none	Dec 8
2012	none	Dec 12	none	Dec 12
2006	Mar 26	Nov 17	Feb 14	Dec 1
2005	Jan 24	no data	Jan 17	no data
2004	Feb 28	Dec 1	Feb 15	Dec 15
2003	Mar 31	Nov 25	Mar 30	Nov 25
2002	Mar 6	Dec 6	Mar 6	none
2001	no data	Nov 29	no data	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.