Last Frost Day

Frost history / Ft Griffin, TX

Ft Griffin, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413265, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,275 ft, 32.926, -99.234. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 11Oct 31
EarliestMar 4 (2012)Oct 8 (2012)
LatestMay 23 (2019)Nov 22 (2015)
Trend0.8 days earlier per decade8.4 days later per decade
Years with data1613

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 12.

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 30May 15May 30201020202010: Mar 292011: May 32012: Mar 42013: Apr 242014: Apr 162015: Mar 82016: Mar 212017: May 12018: Apr 152019: May 232020: Apr 152021: Apr 212022: Mar 242023: Mar 202024: Mar 272025: Apr 7

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11201020202010: Oct 292011: Oct 292012: Oct 82013: Nov 32015: Nov 222016: Nov 192017: Oct 272020: Oct 272021: Nov 132022: Nov 122023: Oct 312024: Nov 212025: 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
2025Apr 7Oct 30Feb 24Nov 10
2024Mar 27Nov 21Feb 18Dec 6
2023Mar 20Oct 31Mar 20Nov 1
2022Mar 24Nov 12Mar 13Nov 12
2021Apr 21Nov 13Feb 23Nov 26
2020Apr 15Oct 27Feb 27Nov 30
2019May 23no dataMay 23no data
2018Apr 15no dataApr 8no data
2017May 1Oct 27Mar 2Oct 27
2016Mar 21Nov 19Feb 26Dec 1
2015Mar 8Nov 22Mar 6Nov 22
2014Apr 16no dataApr 15no data
2013Apr 24Nov 3Mar 27Nov 7
2012Mar 4Oct 8Feb 25Oct 28
2011May 3Oct 29Mar 7Nov 4
2010Mar 29Oct 29Mar 23Nov 14

"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.