Frost history / Ft Worth Nature Ctr, TX
Ft Worth Nature Ctr, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413289, 2005 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 615 ft, 32.847, -97.476. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 7 | Nov 21 |
| Earliest | Jan 28 (2017) | Oct 31 (2019) |
| Latest | Mar 31 (2011) | Dec 13 (2007) |
| Trend | 10.1 days earlier per decade | 6.1 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 19 | 21 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 19 and the median first fall date is Dec 2.
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 | Feb 24 | Nov 9 | Feb 24 | Dec 2 |
| 2024 | Feb 19 | Nov 29 | Feb 19 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 20 | Oct 31 | Feb 4 | none |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 13 | Mar 13 | Nov 20 |
| 2021 | Feb 21 | Nov 26 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Nov 30 | Feb 28 | Dec 24 |
| 2019 | Mar 7 | Oct 31 | Mar 7 | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Feb 23 | Nov 13 | Feb 13 | Nov 14 |
| 2017 | Jan 28 | Nov 24 | Jan 27 | Dec 8 |
| 2016 | Feb 26 | Dec 8 | Feb 4 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 7 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 14 | Nov 12 | Mar 5 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 27 | Nov 13 | Feb 16 | Nov 13 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Nov 13 | Feb 12 | Dec 11 |
| 2011 | Mar 31 | Nov 4 | Feb 12 | Nov 28 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 26 | Feb 17 | Dec 13 |
| 2009 | no data | Dec 3 | no data | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 9 | Nov 21 | Mar 9 | Dec 10 |
| 2007 | Mar 5 | Dec 13 | Feb 19 | Dec 16 |
| 2006 | Mar 24 | Nov 30 | Feb 20 | Nov 30 |
| 2005 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Nov 17 |
"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.