Frost history / Persimmon Gap, TX
Persimmon Gap, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00416959, 1982 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,865 ft, 29.660, -103.174. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 9 | Nov 20 |
| Earliest | Feb 1 (2017) | Oct 20 (1989) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (1983) | Dec 12 (2021) |
| Trend | 3.9 days earlier per decade | 1.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 20 and the median first fall date is Dec 1.
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 | Mar 10 | Dec 2 | Feb 23 | none |
| 2024 | Feb 18 | Dec 11 | Feb 13 | Dec 11 |
| 2023 | Mar 19 | Nov 22 | Feb 11 | Dec 27 |
| 2022 | Mar 14 | Nov 4 | Feb 28 | Dec 15 |
| 2021 | Mar 3 | Dec 12 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Oct 27 | Feb 28 | Oct 27 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 5 | Dec 18 |
| 2018 | Feb 22 | Nov 13 | Jan 20 | Nov 13 |
| 2017 | Feb 1 | Dec 7 | Feb 1 | Dec 8 |
| 2016 | Feb 25 | Nov 20 | Feb 7 | Dec 10 |
| 2015 | Mar 6 | Dec 2 | Mar 6 | Dec 3 |
| 2014 | Mar 18 | no data | Mar 4 | no data |
| 2013 | Mar 12 | no data | Mar 1 | no data |
| 2012 | Mar 5 | Dec 10 | Jan 15 | Dec 12 |
| 2011 | Feb 26 | Nov 11 | Feb 14 | Nov 11 |
| 2010 | Mar 23 | Nov 27 | Mar 21 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 17 |
| 2008 | Mar 9 | Nov 8 | Mar 9 | Nov 22 |
| 2007 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Dec 16 |
| 2006 | Mar 21 | no data | Feb 20 | no data |
| 2005 | Apr 2 | Nov 19 | none | Nov 29 |
| 2004 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 | Feb 17 | Dec 1 |
| 1999 | Feb 15 | no data | Feb 14 | no data |
| 1998 | Mar 11 | no data | Mar 1 | no data |
| 1997 | Feb 26 | Nov 18 | Jan 16 | Dec 12 |
| 1996 | Mar 27 | no data | Mar 11 | no data |
| 1995 | Mar 9 | Dec 10 | Jan 31 | Dec 11 |
| 1993 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 1992 | Mar 12 | Nov 5 | Mar 12 | Nov 22 |
| 1991 | Feb 8 | no data | Feb 1 | no data |
| 1990 | Feb 24 | no data | Feb 17 | no data |
| 1989 | Mar 23 | Oct 20 | Mar 22 | Dec 12 |
| 1988 | no data | Nov 20 | no data | Nov 28 |
| 1986 | Mar 21 | Nov 13 | Feb 14 | Nov 13 |
| 1985 | Apr 2 | Dec 2 | Feb 25 | Dec 3 |
| 1984 | no data | Nov 27 | no data | none |
| 1983 | Apr 9 | Nov 24 | Jan 23 | Nov 28 |
| 1982 | no data | Nov 4 | no data | Nov 4 |
"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.