Frost history / Fowlerton, TX
Fowlerton, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413299, 1958 to 2012, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 300 ft, 28.503, -98.839. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 6 | Nov 26 |
| Earliest | Jan 30 (2000) | Oct 29 (1970) |
| Latest | Apr 10 (1983) | Dec 23 (1998) |
| Trend | 1.2 days later per decade | 1.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 41 | 42 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 15 and the median first fall date is Dec 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)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Mar 6 | Dec 11 | Jan 15 | Dec 12 |
| 2011 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 23 | no data | Feb 25 | no data |
| 2009 | Mar 3 | no data | Mar 3 | no data |
| 2008 | Mar 9 | no data | Feb 28 | no data |
| 2007 | Mar 7 | Nov 26 | Mar 7 | Dec 16 |
| 2006 | Mar 26 | Nov 16 | Feb 14 | Dec 1 |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Nov 17 | Jan 18 | Nov 29 |
| 2004 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 | Feb 16 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | Nov 24 | Jan 25 | Nov 29 |
| 2002 | Mar 6 | Dec 6 | Mar 5 | none |
| 2001 | Feb 19 | Nov 29 | Jan 21 | Dec 26 |
| 2000 | Jan 30 | Dec 7 | Jan 30 | Dec 19 |
| 1999 | Feb 15 | Nov 26 | Feb 15 | Dec 5 |
| 1998 | Mar 11 | Dec 23 | none | Dec 26 |
| 1997 | Jan 31 | Dec 13 | Jan 30 | Dec 13 |
| 1996 | Mar 11 | Nov 26 | Mar 11 | Dec 18 |
| 1995 | Mar 9 | Dec 10 | none | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Feb 12 | Dec 11 | Feb 3 | none |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | Oct 31 | Jan 27 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | Nov 27 |
| 1988 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 7 | no data | Jan 24 | no data |
| 1983 | Apr 10 | no data | Jan 31 | no data |
| 1982 | Mar 6 | Nov 4 | Mar 6 | Dec 14 |
| 1981 | no data | Nov 21 | no data | Dec 15 |
| 1980 | Mar 3 | Nov 18 | Mar 3 | Dec 25 |
| 1978 | Mar 5 | Dec 8 | Feb 22 | Dec 8 |
| 1977 | Mar 7 | Nov 11 | Feb 27 | Dec 21 |
| 1976 | Feb 24 | Oct 30 | Feb 23 | Nov 30 |
| 1975 | Feb 25 | Nov 13 | Feb 24 | Nov 23 |
| 1974 | Feb 26 | Dec 1 | Feb 26 | Dec 1 |
| 1973 | Apr 9 | no data | Feb 11 | no data |
| 1972 | Feb 9 | Nov 15 | Feb 4 | Dec 16 |
| 1971 | no data | Dec 4 | no data | none |
| 1970 | Feb 17 | Oct 29 | Feb 3 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | no data | Nov 15 | no data | Nov 20 |
| 1968 | no data | Nov 19 | no data | Dec 14 |
| 1967 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 | Jan 28 | Dec 23 |
| 1966 | Mar 6 | Nov 2 | Mar 6 | Dec 12 |
| 1965 | Mar 21 | Nov 30 | Mar 4 | none |
| 1964 | Feb 23 | Dec 14 | Feb 8 | Dec 14 |
| 1963 | Feb 15 | Nov 30 | Feb 14 | Dec 23 |
| 1962 | Mar 16 | Nov 9 | Mar 2 | none |
| 1961 | Feb 8 | Dec 13 | Feb 7 | Dec 24 |
| 1960 | Feb 26 | Nov 30 | Feb 26 | Dec 22 |
| 1959 | Mar 6 | Nov 7 | Jan 10 | Nov 7 |
| 1958 | no data | Dec 11 | no data | Dec 11 |
"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.