Frost history / Lubbock Wfo, TX
Lubbock Wfo, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00415409, 2012 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,235 ft, 33.528, -101.876. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 28 | Nov 11 |
| Earliest | Feb 25 (2017) | Oct 15 (2018) |
| Latest | May 3 (2013) | Nov 30 (2025) |
| Trend | 10.0 days earlier per decade | 7.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 13 | 14 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 17.
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 | Apr 5 | Nov 30 | Feb 22 | Nov 30 |
| 2024 | Mar 26 | Nov 20 | Feb 18 | Nov 29 |
| 2023 | Mar 28 | Oct 29 | Feb 24 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Nov 11 | Mar 12 | Nov 12 |
| 2021 | Mar 2 | Nov 18 | Feb 19 | Dec 19 |
| 2020 | Apr 14 | Oct 26 | Feb 26 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Mar 31 | Oct 24 | Mar 6 | Oct 25 |
| 2018 | Apr 8 | Oct 15 | Apr 7 | Nov 12 |
| 2017 | Feb 25 | Oct 28 | Feb 25 | Dec 7 |
| 2016 | Mar 19 | Nov 19 | Feb 8 | Nov 30 |
| 2015 | Mar 6 | Nov 21 | Mar 6 | Nov 27 |
| 2014 | Apr 15 | Nov 11 | Mar 24 | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | May 3 | Nov 12 | Apr 24 | Nov 22 |
| 2012 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Nov 12 |
"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.