Last Frost Day

Frost history / Hudspeth Rvr Rch, TX

Hudspeth Rvr Rch, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00414348, 1989 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,570 ft, 30.005, -101.177. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 10Nov 16
EarliestFeb 1 (1991)Oct 23 (1996)
LatestApr 7 (2009)Dec 9 (1998)
Trend6.9 days later per decadelittle change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data2323

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 22 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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 151990200020101990: Mar 41991: Feb 11992: Mar 131993: Mar 141994: Mar 111995: Mar 91996: Mar 291997: Feb 171998: Mar 101999: Mar 162000: Feb 282001: Feb 112002: Mar 52003: Mar 302004: Feb 162005: Mar 182006: Mar 242007: Mar 52008: Mar 92009: Apr 72010: Mar 222012: Mar 42014: Mar 16

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 261990200020101989: Nov 161990: Dec 41991: Nov 31992: Nov 51993: Oct 301994: Nov 301995: Nov 301996: Oct 231997: Nov 161998: Dec 91999: Nov 252000: Nov 92001: Nov 282002: Nov 172004: Dec 12005: Nov 162006: Nov 162007: Nov 232008: Nov 82009: Nov 12010: Nov 272011: Nov 92016: Nov 18

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
2016no dataNov 18no dataDec 17
2014Mar 16no dataMar 3no data
2012Mar 4no dataMar 4no data
2011no dataNov 9no dataNov 10
2010Mar 22Nov 27Mar 3Nov 27
2009Apr 7Nov 1Feb 22Nov 17
2008Mar 9Nov 8Mar 9Nov 16
2007Mar 5Nov 23Mar 5Nov 26
2006Mar 24Nov 16Feb 19Dec 1
2005Mar 18Nov 16Jan 16Nov 29
2004Feb 16Dec 1Feb 16Dec 1
2003Mar 30no dataMar 30no data
2002Mar 5Nov 17Mar 4Dec 10
2001Feb 11Nov 28Jan 22Nov 28
2000Feb 28Nov 9Jan 30Dec 7
1999Mar 16Nov 25Feb 14Dec 6
1998Mar 10Dec 9Mar 2Dec 13
1997Feb 17Nov 16Feb 16Dec 13
1996Mar 29Oct 23Mar 10Dec 18
1995Mar 9Nov 30Mar 9Dec 10
1994Mar 11Nov 30Mar 10none
1993Mar 14Oct 30Feb 7Oct 31
1992Mar 13Nov 5Jan 24Nov 27
1991Feb 1Nov 3Feb 1Nov 4
1990Mar 4Dec 4Feb 5Dec 4
1989no dataNov 16no dataDec 9

"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.