Odessa, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00416502, 1951 to 2021, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,910 ft, 31.880, -102.359. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 22	Nov 18
Earliest	Feb 28 (2020)	Oct 26 (2020)
Latest	Apr 13 (1951)	Dec 11 (2008)
Trend	2.5 days earlier per decade	1.7 days later per decade
Years with data	10	14

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 3 and the median first fall date is Nov 14.

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
2021	Mar 18	Nov 22	Mar 2	Dec 20
2020	Feb 28	Oct 26	Feb 26	Oct 26
2015	Mar 6	no data	Mar 6	no data
2014	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 12
2012	Mar 4	Nov 12	Feb 12	Nov 13
2011	Mar 30	Nov 3	Feb 14	Nov 10
2010	Apr 3	Nov 27	Jan 31	none
2009	no data	Dec 5	no data	Dec 21
2008	no data	Dec 11	no data	none
2005	no data	Nov 16	no data	Nov 16
2003	no data	Nov 24	no data	Nov 24
2002	Mar 26	no data	Mar 5	no data
2001	no data	Nov 27	no data	Nov 27
1953	Mar 5	Oct 27	Mar 4	Nov 8
1952	Apr 10	Nov 20	Mar 28	Nov 26
1951	Apr 13	Nov 1	Mar 29	Nov 2

"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.