Frost history / Killeen, TX
Killeen, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00414792, 1981 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 815 ft, 31.066, -97.692. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 27 | Nov 13 |
| Earliest | Jan 25 (1992) | Oct 11 (1994) |
| Latest | Mar 26 (2013) | Dec 22 (1998) |
| Trend | 0.9 days later per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 24 | 26 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feb 22 | no data | Feb 20 | no data |
| 2024 | Feb 18 | Dec 11 | Jan 20 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 19 | Nov 1 | Feb 18 | Dec 26 |
| 2022 | Mar 12 | Nov 13 | Mar 12 | Dec 18 |
| 2021 | no data | Dec 11 | no data | Dec 12 |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | no data | Feb 27 | no data |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 6 | Nov 1 |
| 2018 | Feb 12 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
| 2017 | Jan 27 | no data | Jan 8 | no data |
| 2016 | Feb 26 | Nov 20 | Jan 23 | Dec 18 |
| 2015 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | Nov 13 | Mar 3 | Nov 17 |
| 2013 | Mar 26 | no data | Jan 3 | no data |
| 2012 | Feb 25 | Nov 13 | Feb 12 | Dec 11 |
| 2002 | Mar 22 | Nov 28 | Mar 6 | Dec 25 |
| 2001 | Feb 18 | Nov 29 | Feb 11 | Nov 29 |
| 2000 | Feb 5 | Nov 9 | Jan 31 | Nov 14 |
| 1999 | Feb 14 | Nov 3 | Feb 14 | Dec 6 |
| 1998 | Mar 13 | Dec 22 | Mar 11 | Dec 22 |
| 1997 | Feb 23 | Nov 16 | Jan 30 | Dec 13 |
| 1996 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Dec 18 |
| 1995 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 1994 | Mar 11 | Oct 11 | Mar 11 | Oct 11 |
| 1992 | Jan 25 | Nov 5 | Jan 22 | Nov 5 |
| 1991 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 3 |
| 1990 | Feb 5 | no data | Jan 30 | no data |
| 1989 | no data | Nov 3 | no data | Dec 4 |
| 1987 | no data | Nov 11 | no data | Dec 15 |
| 1986 | Mar 2 | Nov 13 | Feb 13 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | no data | Dec 1 | no data | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | no data | Nov 22 | no data | Dec 7 |
| 1983 | Mar 21 | Nov 28 | Feb 7 | Dec 19 |
| 1981 | no data | Dec 5 | no data | Dec 17 |
"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.