Frost history / Falfurrias, TX
Falfurrias, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413063, 1951 to 2009, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 139 ft, 27.135, -98.120. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 17 | Dec 8 |
| Earliest | Jan 12 (1969) | Oct 31 (1993) |
| Latest | Mar 31 (1987) | Dec 23 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.2 days later per decade | 1.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 41, 5 with no freeze | 42, 8 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Mar 3 | no data | Mar 2 | no data |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2006 | no data | Nov 17 | no data | Dec 1 |
| 2000 | no data | Dec 7 | no data | Dec 19 |
| 1999 | Feb 15 | no data | none | no data |
| 1998 | Mar 1 | Dec 23 | Mar 1 | Dec 26 |
| 1997 | Jan 15 | Dec 14 | Jan 13 | Dec 28 |
| 1996 | Mar 8 | Dec 19 | Feb 4 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | none | Dec 10 | none | none |
| 1994 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1993 | Jan 27 | Oct 31 | none | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | none | Nov 28 | none | Nov 28 |
| 1991 | no data | Nov 24 | no data | none |
| 1990 | none | no data | none | no data |
| 1989 | no data | Dec 9 | no data | Dec 13 |
| 1988 | Mar 19 | none | Feb 13 | none |
| 1987 | Mar 31 | none | none | none |
| 1986 | none | Dec 13 | none | none |
| 1985 | Feb 12 | Dec 14 | Feb 3 | Dec 14 |
| 1984 | Jan 22 | no data | Jan 20 | no data |
| 1983 | no data | Dec 22 | no data | Dec 22 |
| 1981 | Feb 13 | Dec 18 | Feb 12 | none |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | Nov 28 | Mar 3 | none |
| 1979 | Feb 17 | Nov 30 | Jan 15 | Dec 18 |
| 1978 | Mar 6 | Dec 9 | Jan 21 | Dec 10 |
| 1977 | Feb 16 | Dec 22 | Jan 20 | Dec 22 |
| 1976 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | none |
| 1971 | Mar 5 | none | Mar 5 | none |
| 1970 | Feb 18 | Nov 5 | Feb 4 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Jan 12 | Nov 20 | Jan 5 | Nov 20 |
| 1968 | Mar 14 | Nov 12 | Feb 25 | Dec 4 |
| 1967 | Feb 14 | Dec 23 | Feb 10 | none |
| 1966 | Feb 5 | Nov 2 | Jan 31 | Dec 12 |
| 1965 | Mar 5 | none | Feb 26 | none |
| 1964 | Feb 23 | Dec 15 | Feb 9 | none |
| 1963 | Feb 15 | Nov 30 | Feb 15 | Dec 23 |
| 1962 | Jan 13 | none | Jan 13 | none |
| 1961 | Feb 8 | none | none | none |
| 1960 | Feb 27 | Dec 22 | Feb 26 | none |
| 1959 | Jan 23 | Nov 7 | none | Nov 29 |
| 1958 | Feb 14 | Dec 16 | Feb 14 | Dec 16 |
| 1957 | Jan 17 | Dec 1 | none | Dec 1 |
| 1956 | Mar 9 | Nov 27 | none | none |
| 1955 | Feb 13 | Dec 16 | Feb 13 | none |
| 1954 | Feb 9 | no data | none | no data |
| 1953 | none | Dec 15 | none | Dec 25 |
| 1952 | Mar 24 | none | none | none |
| 1951 | Mar 14 | Nov 3 | Feb 4 | 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.