Frost history / Ft Stockton, TX
Ft Stockton, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413280, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,038 ft, 30.907, -102.915. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 21 | Nov 12 |
| Earliest | Feb 3 (2017) | Oct 8 (1976) |
| Latest | May 4 (2013) | Dec 9 (1995) |
| Trend | 3.7 days earlier per decade | 0.8 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 54 | 60, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 9 and the median first fall date is Nov 21.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Feb 18 | Nov 29 | Feb 18 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 19 | Nov 1 | Feb 17 | Dec 10 |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 12 | Mar 12 | Dec 22 |
| 2021 | Mar 2 | none | Feb 19 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Oct 27 | Feb 27 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | Mar 16 | Oct 31 | Mar 5 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Feb 22 | Nov 12 | Feb 22 | Nov 13 |
| 2017 | Feb 3 | Dec 6 | Jan 28 | Dec 7 |
| 2016 | Feb 26 | Nov 18 | Feb 5 | Dec 7 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | Nov 12 | Mar 4 | Nov 12 |
| 2013 | May 4 | Nov 22 | Mar 25 | Nov 23 |
| 2012 | Mar 10 | Nov 15 | Feb 9 | Dec 12 |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 3 | Feb 13 | Nov 27 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 18 | Feb 24 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Dec 4 |
| 1996 | Apr 5 | Nov 24 | Mar 10 | Dec 18 |
| 1995 | Mar 8 | Dec 9 | Mar 8 | Dec 9 |
| 1994 | Apr 7 | Nov 28 | Mar 10 | Nov 30 |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | Oct 30 | Mar 13 | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 | Jan 24 | Nov 25 |
| 1991 | Mar 31 | Oct 31 | Mar 31 | Nov 1 |
| 1990 | Mar 25 | Nov 8 | Mar 2 | Dec 3 |
| 1989 | Mar 22 | Oct 19 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 |
| 1988 | Mar 19 | Nov 16 | Mar 19 | Nov 20 |
| 1987 | Apr 14 | Nov 10 | Apr 3 | Nov 10 |
| 1986 | Mar 20 | Nov 13 | Feb 14 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Feb 17 | Nov 20 | Feb 14 | Dec 3 |
| 1984 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Nov 27 |
| 1983 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Nov 26 |
| 1981 | Mar 29 | Nov 1 | Feb 15 | Nov 10 |
| 1980 | Apr 14 | Oct 29 | Mar 30 | Oct 29 |
| 1979 | Apr 5 | Oct 31 | Mar 11 | Nov 2 |
| 1978 | Apr 11 | Nov 28 | Mar 17 | Dec 4 |
| 1977 | Mar 13 | Nov 2 | Mar 4 | Nov 10 |
| 1976 | Mar 31 | Oct 8 | Mar 21 | Oct 20 |
| 1975 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Apr 5 | Nov 25 | Mar 24 | Nov 25 |
| 1973 | Apr 10 | Nov 24 | Apr 10 | Nov 27 |
| 1972 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Mar 31 | Nov 26 |
| 1971 | Apr 8 | Dec 3 | Apr 7 | Dec 6 |
| 1970 | Apr 5 | Oct 28 | Apr 3 | Nov 4 |
| 1969 | Mar 27 | Nov 3 | Mar 24 | Nov 3 |
| 1968 | no data | Nov 7 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 1967 | Mar 9 | Nov 30 | Mar 8 | Dec 3 |
| 1966 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 5 | Nov 2 |
| 1965 | Mar 26 | Nov 29 | Mar 21 | Nov 29 |
| 1964 | Mar 27 | Nov 20 | Mar 21 | Nov 20 |
| 1963 | Mar 20 | Nov 23 | Mar 7 | Nov 23 |
| 1962 | Apr 1 | Nov 8 | Mar 17 | Nov 19 |
| 1960 | Mar 18 | Nov 4 | Mar 7 | Nov 10 |
| 1959 | Apr 13 | Nov 6 | Mar 17 | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | Apr 10 | Nov 18 | Feb 18 | Nov 19 |
| 1957 | Apr 14 | Nov 19 | Jan 28 | Nov 22 |
| 1956 | Mar 16 | Nov 2 | Mar 16 | Nov 17 |
| 1955 | Mar 29 | Nov 3 | Mar 29 | Nov 8 |
| 1954 | Mar 14 | Nov 5 | Mar 14 | Dec 9 |
| 1953 | Mar 5 | Nov 8 | Mar 4 | Nov 22 |
| 1952 | Apr 12 | Nov 11 | Apr 12 | Nov 19 |
| 1951 | no data | Nov 2 | 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.