Rainbow, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00417388, 2001 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 648 ft, 32.262, -97.706. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 5	Nov 11
Earliest	Feb 28 (2020)	Oct 24 (2005)
Latest	May 4 (2013)	Nov 25 (2004)
Trend	2.9 days earlier per decade	3.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data	19	18

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 10 and the median first fall date is Nov 20.

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 8	Nov 10	Feb 22	Nov 10
2024	no data	Nov 21	no data	Nov 30
2023	Mar 20	Nov 1	Mar 20	Nov 27
2022	Apr 9	Nov 12	Mar 13	Nov 13
2021	Apr 1	no data	Feb 22	no data
2020	Feb 28	Oct 30	Feb 28	Dec 1
2019	Mar 18	Oct 31	Mar 7	Oct 31
2014	Apr 16	Nov 9	Apr 16	Nov 14
2013	May 4	Nov 13	Mar 27	Nov 13
2012	Apr 21	no data	Feb 25	no data
2011	Apr 5	Oct 29	Mar 6	Nov 4
2010	Mar 23	Nov 5	Mar 23	Nov 27
2009	no data	Nov 18	no data	Nov 18
2008	Apr 15	Oct 28	Mar 9	Nov 16
2007	Apr 17	Nov 16	Apr 16	Dec 4
2006	Mar 25	no data	Mar 24	no data
2005	Apr 2	Oct 24	Mar 17	Oct 25
2004	Apr 14	Nov 25	Feb 27	Dec 1
2003	Apr 11	Nov 24	Mar 30	Nov 24
2002	Mar 24	Nov 13	Mar 10	Nov 28
2001	Mar 20	Nov 20	Feb 19	Nov 21

"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.