Last Frost Day

Frost history / Cooper Dam, TX

Cooper Dam, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00411968, 2009 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 463 ft, 33.319, -95.604. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 11Nov 13
EarliestFeb 14 (2012)Oct 28 (2017)
LatestApr 16 (2014)Dec 3 (2009)
Trend1.7 days later per decade5.9 days earlier per decade
Years with data1213

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 24 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30201020202010: Mar 222011: Mar 62012: Feb 142013: Mar 272014: Apr 162015: Mar 82016: Feb 272017: Mar 152018: Apr 92019: Mar 72020: Feb 282024: Mar 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202009: Dec 32012: Nov 122013: Nov 132014: Nov 12015: Nov 222016: Nov 202017: Oct 282018: Nov 132019: Nov 12020: Dec 12022: Nov 132023: Oct 302024: Nov 21

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2024Mar 20Nov 21Feb 20Dec 5
2023no dataOct 30no dataDec 26
2022no dataNov 13no dataDec 18
2020Feb 28Dec 1Feb 28Dec 1
2019Mar 7Nov 1Mar 7Nov 12
2018Apr 9Nov 13Feb 13Nov 14
2017Mar 15Oct 28Jan 9Dec 8
2016Feb 27Nov 20Feb 4Nov 20
2015Mar 8Nov 22Mar 7Nov 22
2014Apr 16Nov 1Mar 6Nov 14
2013Mar 27Nov 13Mar 26Nov 13
2012Feb 14Nov 12Feb 13Nov 13
2011Mar 6no dataFeb 12no data
2010Mar 22no dataMar 4no data
2009no dataDec 3no dataDec 4

"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.