Frost history / New Braunfels Wfo, TX
New Braunfels Wfo, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00416273, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 628 ft, 29.705, -98.029. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 21 | Dec 1 |
| Earliest | Jan 9 (2017) | Nov 1 (2019) |
| Latest | Mar 14 (2022) | Dec 18 (2022) |
| Trend | 4.5 days later per decade | 16.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 15 | 15 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 11 and the median first fall date is Dec 11.
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 23 | Dec 2 | Feb 21 | none |
| 2024 | Feb 19 | Dec 12 | Jan 21 | none |
| 2023 | Feb 18 | Dec 11 | Feb 11 | Dec 11 |
| 2022 | Mar 14 | Dec 18 | Mar 14 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Feb 21 | Dec 12 | Feb 21 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Nov 1 | Mar 5 | Dec 18 |
| 2018 | Feb 12 | Nov 14 | Jan 25 | Nov 14 |
| 2017 | Jan 9 | Dec 8 | Jan 9 | none |
| 2016 | Feb 9 | Nov 20 | Jan 23 | Dec 19 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 23 | Jan 9 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 5 | Nov 17 | Mar 4 | none |
| 2013 | Mar 3 | Nov 14 | none | Dec 7 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Dec 11 | Jan 14 | Dec 11 |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 11 | Feb 12 | Dec 7 |
"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.