Last Frost Day

Frost history / Paint Rock, TX

Paint Rock, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00416747, 1964 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,654 ft, 31.506, -99.930. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 3Nov 5
EarliestMar 7 (1982)Oct 12 (1977)
LatestApr 24 (1995)Dec 8 (1998)
Trend1.5 days later per decadelittle change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data4848

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 15.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 301970198019902000201020201964: Apr 91965: Mar 261966: Mar 241967: Mar 81968: Apr 51969: Mar 261970: Apr 51971: Apr 71972: Mar 311973: Apr 101974: Apr 51975: Apr 31976: Mar 211977: Mar 221978: Mar 171980: Apr 141981: Mar 231982: Mar 71983: Apr 151984: Mar 291985: Mar 311986: Mar 211987: Apr 151988: Apr 131989: Mar 231990: Mar 251991: Mar 311992: Mar 231993: Mar 141994: Apr 61995: Apr 241996: Apr 61997: Apr 141998: Mar 211999: Apr 172000: Apr 42004: Apr 142005: Apr 32006: Mar 262007: Apr 152008: Apr 152009: Apr 82010: Apr 92011: Apr 62020: Apr 152021: Apr 22023: Mar 192024: Mar 27

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 261970198019902000201020201964: Nov 201965: Nov 291966: Nov 21967: Nov 41968: Nov 41969: Nov 31970: Oct 281971: Nov 101972: Nov 151973: Nov 161974: Nov 151975: Nov 131976: Oct 201977: Oct 121978: Nov 81979: Oct 231980: Oct 251981: Nov 101982: Nov 41983: Nov 201984: Nov 111985: Nov 201986: Nov 111987: Nov 101988: Nov 171989: Oct 191990: Oct 221991: Oct 311992: Nov 51993: Oct 301994: Nov 281995: Nov 31996: Oct 231997: Oct 271998: Dec 82003: Nov 192004: Nov 52005: Oct 252006: Nov 152007: Nov 222008: Oct 232009: Oct 312010: Nov 52011: Oct 292022: Nov 122023: Oct 312024: Nov 212025: Oct 30

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025no dataOct 30no dataNov 11
2024Mar 27Nov 21Feb 18Dec 11
2023Mar 19Oct 31Feb 19Nov 28
2022no dataNov 12no dataNov 16
2021Apr 2no dataMar 3no data
2020Apr 15no dataFeb 28no data
2011Apr 6Oct 29Mar 11Nov 4
2010Apr 9Nov 5Mar 23Nov 6
2009Apr 8Oct 31Apr 8Nov 17
2008Apr 15Oct 23Mar 9Oct 24
2007Apr 15Nov 22Mar 6Nov 26
2006Mar 26Nov 15Mar 25Nov 15
2005Apr 3Oct 25Mar 18Oct 25
2004Apr 14Nov 5Feb 27Dec 1
2003no dataNov 19no dataNov 24
2000Apr 4no dataMar 17no data
1999Apr 17no dataMar 15no data
1998Mar 21Dec 8Mar 12Dec 9
1997Apr 14Oct 27Mar 6Oct 27
1996Apr 6Oct 23Mar 21Nov 24
1995Apr 24Nov 3Mar 8Nov 29
1994Apr 6Nov 28Apr 6Nov 30
1993Mar 14Oct 30Mar 14Oct 31
1992Mar 23Nov 5Feb 8Nov 5
1991Mar 31Oct 31Feb 26Nov 2
1990Mar 25Oct 22Feb 17Nov 29
1989Mar 23Oct 19Mar 23Oct 19
1988Apr 13Nov 17Mar 19Nov 21
1987Apr 15Nov 10Apr 15Nov 11
1986Mar 21Nov 11Feb 22Nov 13
1985Mar 31Nov 20Feb 15Dec 1
1984Mar 29Nov 11Mar 6Nov 22
1983Apr 15Nov 20Apr 15Nov 27
1982Mar 7Nov 4Mar 7Nov 4
1981Mar 23Nov 10Mar 19Nov 10
1980Apr 14Oct 25Mar 18Oct 30
1979no dataOct 23no dataNov 11
1978Mar 17Nov 8Mar 9Nov 17
1977Mar 22Oct 12Mar 22Nov 10
1976Mar 21Oct 20Mar 16Oct 20
1975Apr 3Nov 13Apr 3Nov 13
1974Apr 5Nov 15Mar 25Nov 25
1973Apr 10Nov 16Apr 10Nov 28
1972Mar 31Nov 15Mar 31Nov 15
1971Apr 7Nov 10Apr 7Nov 27
1970Apr 5Oct 28Apr 5Oct 29
1969Mar 26Nov 3Mar 13Nov 15
1968Apr 5Nov 4Mar 23Nov 9
1967Mar 8Nov 4Mar 8Nov 4
1966Mar 24Nov 2Mar 24Nov 2
1965Mar 26Nov 29Mar 26Nov 29
1964Apr 9Nov 20Apr 9Nov 22

"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.