Frost history / Franklin, TX
Franklin, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413321, 1962 to 2004, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 467 ft, 31.033, -96.489. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 9 | Nov 19 |
| Earliest | Jan 24 (1992) | Oct 20 (1989) |
| Latest | Apr 11 (1989) | Dec 22 (1998) |
| Trend | 3.4 days earlier per decade | 0.8 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 36 | 37, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 23 and the median first fall date is Dec 1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Feb 26 | Dec 1 | Feb 15 | Dec 1 |
| 2003 | Mar 30 | Nov 24 | Feb 26 | Dec 6 |
| 2002 | Mar 5 | Dec 6 | Mar 4 | none |
| 2001 | Feb 18 | Nov 29 | Feb 10 | Dec 24 |
| 2000 | Feb 5 | no data | Feb 5 | no data |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 | Jan 15 | Dec 6 |
| 1998 | Mar 12 | Dec 22 | Mar 11 | Dec 22 |
| 1997 | Feb 11 | Nov 16 | Jan 30 | Dec 13 |
| 1996 | Apr 7 | Nov 24 | Mar 21 | Dec 18 |
| 1995 | Mar 9 | Nov 12 | Mar 8 | Nov 29 |
| 1994 | Mar 10 | Dec 1 | Feb 24 | none |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | Oct 31 | Mar 14 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Jan 24 | Nov 5 | Jan 20 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | Feb 26 | Nov 2 | Feb 1 | Nov 3 |
| 1990 | Feb 4 | Nov 30 | Jan 29 | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | Apr 11 | Oct 20 | Mar 8 | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | Mar 19 | Nov 17 | Mar 14 | Dec 17 |
| 1987 | Apr 4 | Nov 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 12 |
| 1986 | Mar 1 | Nov 13 | Mar 1 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Feb 13 | Dec 1 | Feb 4 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Feb 28 | Nov 22 |
| 1983 | Mar 12 | Nov 28 | Feb 3 | Nov 29 |
| 1982 | Mar 7 | Nov 13 | Feb 11 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | Feb 15 | Nov 21 | Feb 12 | Dec 18 |
| 1980 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 | Mar 3 | Nov 27 |
| 1979 | Mar 5 | Nov 13 | Feb 18 | Nov 29 |
| 1978 | Mar 10 | Dec 8 | Mar 5 | Dec 8 |
| 1977 | Feb 28 | Dec 6 | Feb 6 | Dec 6 |
| 1976 | Mar 17 | Oct 21 | Feb 8 | Nov 28 |
| 1975 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 1974 | Mar 24 | Nov 15 | Feb 26 | Nov 30 |
| 1973 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | Dec 20 |
| 1972 | Feb 19 | Nov 22 | Feb 9 | Dec 6 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | none | Mar 4 | none |
| 1970 | Mar 22 | Nov 16 | Feb 10 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Mar 13 | Nov 15 | Mar 9 | Nov 15 |
| 1966 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 7 | no data |
| 1965 | no data | Dec 20 | no data | none |
| 1963 | Mar 6 | no data | Feb 22 | no data |
| 1962 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | Dec 12 |
"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.