Last Frost Day

Frost history / Harper 3ENE, TX

Harper 3ENE, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00413954, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,110 ft, 30.309, -99.203. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianFeb 27Nov 12
EarliestJan 27 (2017)Oct 27 (2020)
LatestMay 4 (2011)Dec 12 (2021)
Trend39.0 days earlier per decade22.1 days later per decade
Years with data1315

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 27 and the median first fall date is Nov 13.

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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202011: May 42012: Mar 52013: Apr 202014: Apr 152017: Jan 272018: Feb 232019: Mar 72020: Feb 272021: Feb 202022: Mar 142023: Feb 192024: Feb 192025: Feb 23

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26201020202010: Oct 292011: Oct 292012: Oct 282013: Nov 32014: Nov 122015: Nov 182016: Nov 202017: Dec 62018: Nov 132019: Oct 312020: Oct 272021: Dec 122022: Nov 122024: Dec 112025: Dec 2

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Feb 23Dec 2Feb 23none
2024Feb 19Dec 11Feb 19none
2023Feb 19no dataFeb 18no data
2022Mar 14Nov 12Mar 14Nov 15
2021Feb 20Dec 12Feb 20none
2020Feb 27Oct 27Feb 27Dec 1
2019Mar 7Oct 31Mar 7Oct 31
2018Feb 23Nov 13Feb 13Nov 13
2017Jan 27Dec 6Jan 9Dec 8
2016no dataNov 20no dataDec 9
2015no dataNov 18no dataNov 22
2014Apr 15Nov 12Apr 15Nov 12
2013Apr 20Nov 3Mar 26Nov 13
2012Mar 5Oct 28Mar 4Oct 29
2011May 4Oct 29Apr 5Oct 29
2010no dataOct 29no dataOct 29

"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.