Fairfield 3W, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413047, 1962 to 2007, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 432 ft, 31.732, -96.208. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 21	Nov 13
Earliest	Jan 11 (1992)	Oct 19 (1989)
Latest	Apr 16 (1983)	Dec 13 (1998)
Trend	0.7 days later per decade	0.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data	38	39, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 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
2007	Apr 8	Oct 26	Mar 5	Dec 4
2006	Mar 25	Nov 3	Feb 19	Nov 21
2005	Mar 17	Oct 25	Jan 24	Oct 25
2004	Feb 27	Dec 1	Feb 8	Dec 1
2003	Apr 10	Nov 24	Mar 30	Nov 24
2002	Mar 22	Nov 20	Mar 4	Nov 28
2001	Feb 18	Nov 21	Feb 18	Dec 10
2000	Mar 12	Nov 14	Feb 5	Nov 14
1999	Mar 15	Nov 3	Mar 15	Nov 3
1998	Mar 22	Dec 13	Mar 11	Dec 22
1997	Mar 6	Nov 8	Feb 11	Nov 8
1996	Apr 7	Nov 9	Mar 21	Dec 18
1995	Mar 9	Nov 12	Mar 9	Nov 12
1994	Apr 7	Nov 30	Mar 10	Dec 11
1992	Jan 11	Nov 4	Jan 10	Nov 4
1991	Feb 26	Oct 28	Feb 16	Oct 30
1990	Apr 7	Nov 29	Feb 5	Nov 30
1989	Apr 11	Oct 19	Apr 11	Nov 17
1988	Apr 11	Nov 17	Mar 19	Nov 17
1987	Apr 4	Nov 11	Apr 3	Dec 15
1986	Mar 21	Nov 13	Mar 1	Nov 13
1985	Mar 31	no data	Feb 12	no data
1984	Apr 5	Nov 21	Feb 28	Nov 22
1983	Apr 16	Nov 11	Mar 12	Nov 11
1982	no data	Oct 24	no data	Nov 13
1980	Mar 18	no data	Mar 3	no data
1979	Mar 5	Nov 14	Feb 19	Nov 29
1978	Mar 10	Dec 4	Mar 5	Dec 8
1977	Feb 27	Dec 6	Feb 6	Dec 6
1976	no data	Oct 20	no data	Nov 28
1975	Apr 3	Nov 13	Mar 14	Nov 21
1974	Feb 26	Nov 15	Feb 25	Nov 30
1973	no data	Dec 6	no data	Dec 17
1972	Mar 2	Nov 16	Feb 8	Dec 6
1971	no data	none	no data	none
1968	Mar 23	Nov 9	Mar 13	Nov 12
1967	Mar 8	Nov 4	Mar 8	Dec 22
1966	Mar 24	Nov 2	Mar 6	Nov 2
1965	Mar 26	Nov 30	Mar 21	none
1964	Mar 26	Nov 21	Mar 10	Nov 22
1963	Mar 6	Nov 2	Feb 22	Dec 12
1962	Mar 16	no data	Mar 16	no data

"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.