Lufkin 11 Nw, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00415415, 1997 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 350 ft, 31.427, -94.894. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 17	Nov 14
Earliest	Feb 19 (2001)	Oct 28 (2008)
Latest	Apr 15 (2008)	Dec 13 (1998)
Trend	4.1 days later per decade	8.4 days earlier per decade
Years with data	18	15

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 27.

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
2015	Mar 8	no data	Mar 8	no data
2014	Mar 14	Nov 14	Mar 8	Nov 14
2013	Mar 28	Nov 13	Mar 28	Nov 14
2012	Mar 5	Oct 28	Feb 13	Dec 11
2011	Apr 6	Nov 4	Feb 14	Nov 28
2010	Mar 5	Oct 30	Mar 4	Nov 27
2009	Apr 8	Nov 25	Apr 8	Dec 5
2008	Apr 15	Oct 28	Mar 8	Oct 28
2007	Apr 8	Nov 16	Mar 6	Dec 4
2006	Mar 26	no data	Mar 25	no data
2005	Mar 18	no data	Jan 25	no data
2004	Feb 28	Dec 1	Feb 9	Dec 15
2003	Apr 11	Nov 24	Mar 31	Nov 25
2002	Mar 5	Nov 17	Mar 5	Nov 28
2001	Feb 19	no data	Feb 11	no data
2000	Mar 13	Nov 14	Feb 7	Nov 14
1999	Mar 16	Nov 3	Jan 16	Nov 3
1998	Mar 22	Dec 13	Mar 11	Dec 16
1997	no data	Nov 7	no data	Nov 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 to 2020 frost probabilities.