Hereford, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00414098, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,820 ft, 34.817, -102.400. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 17	Oct 23
Earliest	Mar 17 (1963)	Sep 21 (1983)
Latest	May 16 (1967)	Nov 18 (1963)
Trend	1.1 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	65	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 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.

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
2025	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 29
2024	Apr 3	Oct 31	Mar 18	Nov 20
2022	no data	Oct 25	no data	Nov 5
2020	Apr 18	Oct 24	Apr 18	Oct 26
2019	Apr 15	Oct 11	Apr 15	Oct 11
2018	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 16	Oct 15
2017	no data	Oct 28	no data	Nov 9
2016	Apr 3	Nov 12	Apr 2	Nov 19
2015	Apr 21	Nov 6	Mar 27	Nov 12
2014	Apr 16	Nov 6	Apr 16	Nov 11
2013	May 4	Oct 19	May 4	Oct 19
2012	Apr 5	Oct 8	Mar 21	Oct 27
2011	May 4	Oct 27	Mar 15	Oct 28
2010	Apr 9	Oct 28	Apr 9	Nov 13
2009	Apr 8	Oct 11	Apr 7	Oct 11
2008	Apr 19	Oct 23	Mar 20	Oct 25
2007	Apr 15	Oct 23	Apr 9	Nov 2
2006	Apr 9	Oct 31	Mar 24	Oct 31
2005	May 3	Oct 25	Mar 28	Nov 16
2004	Apr 14	Nov 2	Apr 14	Nov 3
2003	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 10	Nov 5
2002	no data	Oct 25	no data	Nov 4
2001	Mar 28	Oct 13	Mar 28	Nov 27
2000	Apr 17	Sep 25	Mar 20	Nov 7
1999	Apr 17	Oct 18	Mar 21	Nov 2
1998	Apr 19	Nov 8	Apr 1	Dec 8
1997	Apr 27	Oct 25	Apr 14	Oct 26
1996	Apr 16	Oct 18	Apr 7	Oct 22
1995	Apr 24	Oct 20	Apr 12	Nov 4
1994	Apr 30	Nov 9	Apr 7	Nov 15
1993	Apr 22	Oct 21	Mar 18	Oct 30
1992	Mar 24	Oct 8	Mar 21	Oct 8
1991	May 2	Oct 20	Apr 1	Oct 29
1990	Apr 7	Oct 10	Mar 26	Nov 5
1989	Apr 12	Oct 19	Apr 11	Oct 30
1988	Apr 13	Nov 6	Apr 12	Nov 16
1987	Apr 23	Oct 21	Apr 4	Nov 10
1986	Apr 4	Oct 12	Mar 19	Oct 13
1985	no data	Sep 30	no data	Nov 2
1984	no data	Nov 2	no data	Nov 19
1983	Apr 18	Sep 21	Apr 15	Nov 10
1982	no data	Oct 20	no data	Nov 3
1981	Apr 5	Oct 23	Mar 20	Nov 9
1980	Apr 26	Oct 19	Apr 14	Oct 24
1979	May 4	Oct 31	Apr 5	Oct 31
1978	May 4	Oct 26	Mar 17	Nov 15
1977	Apr 2	Oct 12	Mar 31	Nov 2
1976	no data	Oct 5	no data	Oct 8
1975	Apr 30	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 25
1974	Apr 17	Oct 15	Apr 6	Nov 12
1973	Apr 28	Oct 31	Apr 11	Nov 16
1972	Apr 28	Oct 19	Apr 2	Oct 31
1971	May 14	Oct 31	Apr 7	Oct 31
1970	May 2	Oct 8	Apr 6	Oct 8
1969	Apr 18	Oct 13	Mar 28	Oct 13
1968	Apr 24	Oct 18	Apr 6	Nov 11
1967	May 16	Oct 17	May 2	Nov 1
1966	Apr 21	Oct 15	Apr 21	Oct 15
1965	Mar 30	Nov 14	Mar 27	Nov 27
1964	Apr 9	no data	Apr 9	no data
1963	Mar 17	Nov 18	Mar 15	Nov 18
1962	Apr 7	Nov 8	Apr 2	Nov 18
1961	Apr 16	Nov 3	Apr 15	Nov 3
1960	May 1	Oct 31	Apr 3	Oct 31
1959	Apr 22	Oct 27	Apr 13	Nov 5
1958	Apr 14	Oct 31	Mar 19	Nov 1
1957	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 14	Nov 8
1956	Apr 20	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 4
1955	Apr 14	Oct 24	Apr 7	Oct 24
1954	May 4	Oct 15	May 3	Oct 30
1953	May 14	Nov 8	Apr 19	Nov 20
1952	Apr 13	Oct 7	Apr 11	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Oct 7	Apr 16	Nov 1

"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.