Frost history / Corpus Christi Nws, TX
Corpus Christi Nws, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00412011, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 44 ft, 27.779, -97.506. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Jan 28 | Dec 18 |
| Earliest | Jan 9 (2017) | Nov 28 (2011) |
| Latest | Mar 4 (2014) | Dec 26 (2020) |
| Trend | 5.0 days later per decade | 7.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 21, 9 with no freeze | 21, 9 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 6 and the median first fall date is Dec 14.
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 20 | none | Feb 20 | none |
| 2024 | Jan 17 | none | Jan 17 | none |
| 2023 | none | none | none | none |
| 2022 | Feb 6 | Dec 22 | Feb 6 | Dec 22 |
| 2021 | Feb 21 | none | Feb 17 | none |
| 2020 | none | Dec 26 | none | none |
| 2019 | none | Dec 19 | none | none |
| 2018 | Jan 18 | none | Jan 18 | none |
| 2017 | Jan 9 | Dec 8 | Jan 9 | none |
| 2016 | none | Dec 19 | none | none |
| 2015 | none | none | none | none |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | none | none | none |
| 2013 | none | Dec 8 | none | none |
| 2012 | Jan 13 | Dec 21 | none | none |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 28 | Feb 11 | Dec 7 |
| 2010 | Jan 10 | Dec 26 | Jan 10 | none |
| 2009 | none | Dec 5 | none | none |
| 2008 | none | none | none | none |
| 2007 | Jan 17 | Dec 16 | none | none |
| 2006 | Feb 12 | none | Feb 12 | none |
| 2005 | none | Dec 8 | none | 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.