Gatesville, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413485, 1951 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 826 ft, 31.414, -97.702. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 20	Nov 12
Earliest	Feb 12 (1985)	Oct 8 (1952)
Latest	Apr 17 (1999)	Dec 12 (1961)
Trend	1.6 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	59	54

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 6 and the median first fall date is Nov 15.

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.

Chart

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
2020	Feb 28	Nov 16	Feb 27	Dec 1
2019	Mar 6	Oct 31	Mar 6	Oct 31
2018	Feb 22	Nov 13	Feb 12	Nov 14
2017	Mar 14	Oct 28	Jan 27	Oct 28
2016	Mar 21	Nov 20	Mar 21	Dec 1
2015	Mar 7	Nov 22	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 15	Nov 12	Mar 13	Nov 13
2013	Mar 26	Nov 13	Mar 26	Nov 14
2012	Mar 4	no data	Feb 25	no data
2011	Mar 6	Nov 4	Feb 12	Nov 4
2010	no data	Nov 19	no data	Nov 27
2004	Mar 10	no data	Feb 28	no data
2003	Apr 10	Nov 18	Mar 31	Nov 23
2002	Mar 27	Nov 6	Mar 5	Nov 27
2001	Mar 20	Oct 17	Feb 18	Nov 21
2000	Apr 4	Nov 9	Feb 7	Nov 14
1999	Apr 17	Nov 3	Mar 15	Nov 3
1998	Mar 22	Dec 9	Mar 11	Dec 13
1997	Apr 13	Oct 27	Feb 15	Nov 16
1996	Apr 7	Nov 24	Apr 7	Nov 26
1995	Mar 10	Nov 12	Mar 9	Nov 12
1994	Apr 7	Nov 28	Apr 7	Dec 1
1993	Mar 14	Oct 30	Mar 14	Oct 31
1992	Mar 11	Nov 5	Jan 19	Nov 5
1991	Mar 10	Nov 1	Feb 2	Nov 2
1990	Mar 20	Nov 30	Feb 5	Nov 30
1989	Apr 11	Oct 20	Apr 11	Nov 3
1988	Mar 19	Nov 17	Mar 19	Nov 17
1987	Apr 4	Nov 11	Mar 31	Nov 12
1986	Mar 21	Nov 13	Mar 1	Nov 13
1985	Feb 12	Dec 1	Feb 12	Dec 1
1984	Mar 1	Nov 11	Feb 28	Nov 22
1983	Apr 15	Nov 24	Feb 13	Nov 29
1982	Mar 9	Oct 25	Mar 9	Nov 15
1981	Mar 19	Nov 21	Feb 12	Dec 5
1980	Apr 14	Oct 30	Mar 18	Oct 30
1979	Mar 6	Nov 14	Mar 6	Nov 14
1978	Mar 17	Nov 17	Mar 9	Dec 8
1977	Mar 23	Nov 10	Feb 28	Nov 10
1976	Mar 18	Nov 13	Feb 24	Nov 14
1975	Apr 4	Nov 13	Apr 4	Nov 15
1974	Mar 25	Nov 15	Feb 27	Nov 15
1973	Apr 11	Nov 29	Feb 16	Dec 6
1972	Mar 4	Nov 16	Feb 20	Nov 23
1971	Apr 7	Nov 19	Apr 7	Dec 11
1970	Apr 3	Oct 28	Mar 22	Nov 15
1969	Mar 27	Nov 15	Mar 10	Nov 15
1968	Mar 13	Nov 9	Mar 13	Nov 12
1967	no data	Nov 4	no data	Dec 3
1963	Mar 6	Nov 2	Mar 6	Dec 3
1962	Apr 1	Nov 4	Mar 2	Dec 12
1961	Apr 16	Dec 12	Feb 8	Dec 12
1960	Mar 18	Nov 10	Mar 4	Nov 10
1959	Apr 13	Nov 6	Mar 6	Nov 6
1958	Mar 20	no data	Feb 16	no data
1957	Apr 13	Nov 23	Mar 8	Nov 30
1956	Mar 17	no data	Mar 16	no data
1955	Mar 28	no data	Mar 28	no data
1953	Mar 5	no data	Feb 22	no data
1952	Mar 28	Oct 8	Feb 17	Nov 11
1951	Mar 20	no data	Mar 20	no data

"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.