Frost history / Rocksprings, TX
Rocksprings, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00417706, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,382 ft, 30.024, -100.212. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 11 | Nov 16 |
| Earliest | Feb 5 (2000) | Oct 20 (1976) |
| Latest | Apr 14 (1957) | Dec 20 (1965) |
| Trend | 4.1 days earlier per decade | little change (less than half a day per decade) |
| Years with data | 48 | 46, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 5 and the median first fall date is Dec 2.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Feb 18 | no data | Feb 18 | no data |
| 2023 | Mar 18 | Dec 10 | Feb 17 | none |
| 2022 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Dec 22 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | none | Feb 16 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Oct 27 | Feb 6 | Dec 14 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 5 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Feb 22 | Nov 12 | Feb 12 | Nov 14 |
| 2016 | no data | Dec 8 | no data | Dec 18 |
| 2015 | Mar 6 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2011 | Mar 6 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
| 2010 | Mar 22 | Nov 26 | Mar 21 | Dec 6 |
| 2009 | Mar 2 | Dec 3 | Mar 2 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Nov 16 | Mar 8 | Dec 5 |
| 2006 | Mar 25 | Nov 30 | Mar 25 | Nov 30 |
| 2005 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Dec 8 |
| 2001 | Mar 1 | Nov 28 | Feb 11 | Nov 29 |
| 2000 | Feb 5 | Nov 9 | Jan 30 | Dec 12 |
| 1999 | Feb 12 | Nov 24 | Jan 9 | none |
| 1998 | Mar 12 | Dec 13 | Mar 11 | Dec 22 |
| 1997 | Apr 12 | Nov 11 | Feb 8 | Nov 16 |
| 1996 | Apr 5 | Nov 24 | Mar 9 | Nov 24 |
| 1995 | Mar 9 | Dec 9 | Mar 9 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Apr 7 | no data | Mar 10 | no data |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Oct 30 | Mar 14 | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | Mar 11 | no data | Jan 17 | no data |
| 1986 | Feb 12 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
| 1985 | Mar 27 | Dec 1 | Mar 27 | Dec 2 |
| 1984 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 6 | none |
| 1983 | Apr 9 | Nov 10 | Jan 27 | Dec 17 |
| 1982 | Mar 7 | Nov 4 | Mar 7 | Nov 24 |
| 1981 | Mar 19 | Nov 10 | Feb 12 | Dec 18 |
| 1980 | Apr 13 | Oct 30 | Mar 18 | Oct 30 |
| 1979 | Mar 6 | Nov 11 | Feb 19 | Nov 23 |
| 1978 | Mar 9 | Dec 4 | Mar 4 | Dec 4 |
| 1977 | Mar 7 | Nov 10 | Feb 27 | Dec 6 |
| 1976 | Feb 22 | Oct 20 | Feb 22 | Nov 13 |
| 1975 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 | Apr 3 | Nov 13 |
| 1974 | Mar 24 | Nov 25 | Mar 24 | Nov 30 |
| 1973 | Apr 10 | Nov 28 | Apr 9 | Dec 16 |
| 1972 | Mar 31 | Nov 16 | Feb 8 | Nov 21 |
| 1971 | Mar 7 | Dec 3 | Mar 4 | none |
| 1970 | Apr 3 | Nov 3 | Mar 13 | Nov 5 |
| 1969 | Mar 24 | no data | Mar 12 | no data |
| 1968 | Mar 23 | Nov 9 | Mar 23 | Dec 1 |
| 1967 | Mar 8 | Dec 3 | Mar 8 | Dec 3 |
| 1966 | Mar 25 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 1965 | Mar 26 | Dec 20 | Mar 26 | none |
| 1964 | no data | Nov 20 | no data | Nov 22 |
| 1963 | Mar 8 | Nov 29 | Feb 22 | Dec 3 |
| 1962 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | Dec 12 |
| 1960 | no data | Nov 10 | no data | Dec 13 |
| 1959 | Apr 13 | Nov 6 | Feb 3 | Nov 6 |
| 1958 | no data | Nov 28 | no data | Nov 29 |
| 1957 | Apr 14 | no data | Jan 18 | no data |
| 1956 | no data | Nov 9 | no data | Dec 9 |
| 1951 | Mar 19 | no data | Mar 13 | no data |
"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.