Frost history / Hondo, TX
Hondo, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00414254, 1951 to 2019, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 879 ft, 29.336, -99.139. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 4 | Nov 19 |
| Earliest | Jan 15 (2012) | Oct 29 (2017) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (1973) | Dec 18 (2016) |
| Trend | 2.6 days earlier per decade | 0.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 41 | 41 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 15 and the median first fall date is Dec 7.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | no data | Nov 13 | no data | Dec 19 |
| 2018 | Feb 13 | Nov 14 | Feb 8 | Nov 14 |
| 2017 | Jan 29 | Oct 29 | Jan 9 | none |
| 2016 | Feb 9 | Dec 18 | none | Dec 19 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | Nov 17 | Mar 4 | Dec 25 |
| 2013 | Mar 6 | Dec 7 | Jan 17 | Dec 7 |
| 2012 | Jan 15 | Dec 11 | Jan 15 | Dec 12 |
| 2011 | Mar 6 | Nov 11 | Feb 13 | Dec 7 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 27 | Feb 24 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Feb 23 | Dec 5 | Feb 1 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Nov 16 | Feb 2 | Dec 6 |
| 2007 | Mar 4 | Nov 26 | Feb 17 | Dec 16 |
| 2006 | Feb 20 | no data | none | no data |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Nov 17 | none | Nov 29 |
| 2004 | Feb 26 | no data | Feb 15 | no data |
| 2003 | Feb 26 | no data | Feb 26 | no data |
| 2001 | Feb 4 | no data | Jan 20 | no data |
| 2000 | Feb 5 | Nov 9 | Jan 31 | Dec 19 |
| 1999 | Feb 14 | Nov 26 | Feb 13 | Dec 6 |
| 1997 | Feb 16 | Nov 16 | Jan 30 | Dec 13 |
| 1996 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Dec 18 |
| 1974 | no data | Nov 26 | no data | Nov 30 |
| 1973 | Apr 9 | Nov 29 | Feb 12 | Dec 20 |
| 1972 | Feb 9 | Nov 26 | Feb 5 | Nov 30 |
| 1971 | Mar 9 | Dec 4 | Mar 5 | none |
| 1970 | Feb 10 | Nov 5 | Feb 4 | Nov 16 |
| 1969 | Mar 10 | Nov 15 | Jan 25 | Nov 15 |
| 1968 | Mar 23 | Nov 19 | Feb 25 | Dec 8 |
| 1967 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 | Feb 10 | Dec 23 |
| 1966 | Mar 7 | Nov 3 | Mar 6 | Dec 11 |
| 1965 | Mar 22 | Nov 30 | Mar 21 | none |
| 1964 | Feb 24 | Dec 1 | Feb 23 | Dec 6 |
| 1963 | Mar 7 | Nov 30 | Feb 14 | Dec 23 |
| 1962 | Mar 16 | Dec 6 | Mar 2 | none |
| 1961 | Feb 25 | Dec 13 | Feb 7 | Dec 13 |
| 1960 | Feb 27 | Nov 11 | Feb 27 | Dec 17 |
| 1959 | Mar 7 | Nov 6 | Mar 6 | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | Mar 19 | Nov 19 | Feb 17 | Nov 29 |
| 1957 | Jan 19 | Nov 24 | Jan 19 | Nov 30 |
| 1956 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | none |
| 1955 | Mar 29 | Nov 29 | Mar 29 | Nov 29 |
| 1954 | Mar 8 | Nov 5 | Mar 7 | Dec 29 |
| 1953 | Feb 22 | Nov 9 | Feb 22 | Dec 7 |
| 1952 | Mar 25 | Nov 11 | Mar 24 | Dec 6 |
| 1951 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Nov 3 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.