Frost history / Jefferson, TX
Jefferson, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00414577, 1984 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 211 ft, 32.769, -94.359. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 21 | Nov 4 |
| Earliest | Feb 14 (1985) | Oct 10 (2000) |
| Latest | Apr 13 (1997) | Dec 5 (2009) |
| Trend | 3.6 days earlier per decade | 0.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 32 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 22 | Nov 10 | Feb 22 | Dec 15 |
| 2024 | Mar 20 | Nov 29 | Feb 20 | Nov 30 |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 1 | Mar 21 | Nov 3 |
| 2022 | Mar 14 | Oct 19 | Mar 14 | Oct 19 |
| 2021 | Feb 24 | Nov 5 | Feb 21 | Dec 12 |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Mar 8 | Nov 10 | Feb 8 | Nov 15 |
| 2017 | Mar 14 | Oct 28 | Jan 28 | Oct 29 |
| 2016 | Mar 22 | Nov 20 | Feb 26 | Nov 20 |
| 2015 | no data | Nov 22 | no data | none |
| 2011 | Mar 11 | Oct 20 | Feb 13 | Nov 18 |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Oct 30 | Mar 4 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Apr 7 | Dec 5 | Mar 3 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Nov 15 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Dec 4 |
| 2001 | Feb 19 | no data | Feb 11 | no data |
| 2000 | Apr 9 | Oct 10 | Feb 7 | Oct 10 |
| 1999 | Mar 16 | Nov 3 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 |
| 1998 | Mar 21 | Nov 6 | Mar 13 | Dec 15 |
| 1997 | Apr 13 | Nov 4 | Feb 15 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 8 | Nov 3 | Mar 21 | Nov 28 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 4 | Mar 10 | Nov 12 |
| 1994 | Apr 7 | Nov 30 | Mar 10 | Dec 12 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Apr 2 | Nov 5 | Mar 11 | Nov 28 |
| 1991 | no data | Nov 2 | no data | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Apr 8 | Oct 19 | Mar 4 | Dec 4 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 | Apr 11 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Mar 19 | Nov 17 | Mar 16 | Dec 17 |
| 1987 | Apr 5 | Nov 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 11 |
| 1985 | Feb 14 | Dec 2 | Feb 13 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Nov 22 |
"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.