Frost history / Plainview Wtr Productn, TX
Plainview Wtr Productn, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00417081, 2000 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,450 ft, 34.198, -101.746. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 9 | Oct 28 |
| Earliest | Mar 16 (2017) | Oct 8 (2000) |
| Latest | May 4 (2013) | Nov 20 (2024) |
| Trend | 0.5 days later per decade | 4.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 25 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 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 | Apr 7 | Oct 29 | Apr 7 | Nov 10 |
| 2024 | Mar 29 | Nov 20 | Mar 27 | Nov 20 |
| 2023 | Apr 17 | Oct 29 | Mar 29 | Oct 29 |
| 2022 | Apr 8 | Nov 5 | Mar 25 | Nov 12 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 4 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 |
| 2020 | Apr 18 | Oct 24 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 14 | Oct 11 | Apr 1 | Oct 18 |
| 2018 | Apr 16 | Oct 15 | Apr 16 | Nov 12 |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Oct 28 | Mar 3 | Nov 19 |
| 2016 | Apr 3 | Nov 19 | Mar 19 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Mar 27 | Nov 12 | Mar 16 | Nov 21 |
| 2014 | Apr 16 | Nov 11 | Apr 16 | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | May 4 | Oct 19 | May 4 | Nov 12 |
| 2012 | Mar 21 | Oct 8 | Mar 5 | Oct 27 |
| 2011 | Apr 1 | Oct 28 | Apr 1 | Nov 3 |
| 2010 | Apr 9 | Oct 28 | Apr 9 | Nov 13 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 11 | Apr 7 | Oct 30 |
| 2008 | Apr 18 | Oct 23 | Mar 20 | Oct 24 |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Oct 23 | Apr 9 | Nov 15 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Oct 31 | Mar 25 | Nov 2 |
| 2005 | Apr 13 | Nov 10 | Mar 18 | Nov 16 |
| 2004 | Apr 14 | Nov 2 | Apr 13 | Nov 2 |
| 2003 | Apr 9 | Oct 26 | Apr 9 | Nov 23 |
| 2002 | no data | Oct 31 | no data | Nov 25 |
| 2000 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Nov 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.