Frost history / Ft Hancock 8SSE, TX
Ft Hancock 8SSE, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413266, 1966 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,493 ft, 31.185, -105.741. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 7 | Oct 31 |
| Earliest | Mar 4 (1997) | Sep 27 (1970) |
| Latest | May 4 (1967) | Nov 20 (2017) |
| Trend | 2.9 days earlier per decade | 2.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 35 | 38 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 23 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.
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 | Apr 7 | Nov 10 | Apr 6 | Dec 6 |
| 2024 | Apr 10 | Oct 31 | Feb 19 | Nov 9 |
| 2023 | Apr 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 19 | Oct 31 |
| 2022 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 |
| 2021 | Mar 28 | Nov 12 | Mar 3 | Nov 12 |
| 2020 | Mar 5 | Oct 27 | Feb 28 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | Apr 12 | Oct 25 | Mar 19 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Apr 15 | Nov 12 | Apr 14 | Nov 13 |
| 2017 | Mar 8 | Nov 20 | Feb 26 | Dec 7 |
| 2016 | Apr 4 | Nov 15 | Mar 24 | Nov 23 |
| 2015 | Mar 15 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 |
| 2014 | Mar 18 | Nov 13 | Mar 17 | Nov 17 |
| 2013 | Apr 21 | Nov 1 | Mar 13 | Nov 26 |
| 1998 | Apr 18 | Nov 11 | Apr 1 | Dec 8 |
| 1997 | Mar 4 | Oct 13 | Mar 3 | Oct 26 |
| 1996 | Mar 20 | Oct 22 | Mar 20 | Oct 22 |
| 1995 | Apr 12 | Nov 11 | Apr 11 | Nov 24 |
| 1994 | Mar 29 | no data | Mar 27 | no data |
| 1991 | Apr 29 | Oct 29 | Mar 31 | Nov 1 |
| 1990 | Mar 18 | Oct 22 | Mar 17 | Oct 22 |
| 1988 | Apr 2 | Nov 17 | Mar 21 | Nov 17 |
| 1987 | Apr 15 | Nov 10 | Apr 1 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | Oct 29 | Mar 23 | Nov 24 |
| 1985 | Apr 3 | Nov 2 | Mar 31 | Nov 15 |
| 1984 | Apr 30 | no data | Mar 24 | no data |
| 1982 | Apr 3 | Oct 9 | Mar 8 | Oct 30 |
| 1981 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 1980 | Apr 15 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 1979 | Apr 14 | Oct 31 | Apr 5 | Nov 2 |
| 1978 | Apr 9 | Nov 16 | Mar 17 | Nov 16 |
| 1977 | Apr 6 | Nov 1 | Apr 5 | Nov 8 |
| 1976 | Apr 18 | Oct 8 | Apr 18 | Oct 30 |
| 1975 | Apr 28 | Nov 3 | Apr 8 | Nov 12 |
| 1974 | Mar 24 | Nov 5 | Mar 11 | Nov 25 |
| 1973 | no data | Oct 11 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 1972 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 1 |
| 1970 | no data | Sep 27 | no data | Oct 8 |
| 1969 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1968 | Apr 20 | Nov 6 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 |
| 1967 | May 4 | Oct 30 | May 2 | Nov 4 |
| 1966 | no data | Oct 18 | no data | Nov 2 |
"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.