Last Frost Day

Frost history / Crane 10N, TX

Crane 10N, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00412084, 2000 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,927 ft, 31.673, -102.413. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 18Nov 12
EarliestFeb 25 (2017)Oct 26 (2020)
LatestApr 24 (2013)Nov 28 (2002)
Trend4.3 days earlier per decade7.7 days earlier per decade
Years with data1213

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 26 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 302000201020202001: Mar 162003: Mar 302011: Mar 302012: Mar 112013: Apr 242015: Mar 12016: Apr 22017: Feb 252019: Mar 162021: Mar 182022: Mar 182023: Mar 19

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020202000: Nov 72001: Nov 272002: Nov 282003: Nov 242012: Nov 122013: Nov 132015: Nov 182016: Nov 192017: Nov 92018: Nov 122020: Oct 262022: Nov 122023: Oct 30

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
2023Mar 19Oct 30Mar 19Dec 10
2022Mar 18Nov 12Mar 13Nov 12
2021Mar 18no dataFeb 26no data
2020no dataOct 26no dataOct 26
2019Mar 16no dataMar 6no data
2018no dataNov 12no dataNov 12
2017Feb 25Nov 9Jan 29Dec 7
2016Apr 2Nov 19Feb 6Dec 8
2015Mar 1Nov 18Feb 28Nov 22
2013Apr 24Nov 13Mar 25Nov 13
2012Mar 11Nov 12Feb 12Dec 10
2011Mar 30no dataFeb 12no data
2003Mar 30Nov 24Feb 26Nov 24
2002no dataNov 28no dataDec 20
2001Mar 16Nov 27Feb 17Nov 27
2000no dataNov 7no dataNov 19

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.