Last Frost Day

Frost history / Terlingua, TX

Terlingua, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00418924, 2007 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,633 ft, 29.349, -103.595. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 6Nov 26
EarliestJan 30 (2018)Oct 27 (2019)
LatestMar 25 (2022)Dec 20 (2021)
Trend3.8 days earlier per decade4.8 days earlier per decade
Years with data1114

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 13 and the median first fall date is Dec 6.

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)

Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31201020202010: Mar 222011: Feb 142013: Mar 152014: Mar 182015: Mar 72016: Feb 112017: Feb 12018: Jan 302019: Mar 62021: Mar 22022: Mar 25

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26201020202007: Nov 242008: Dec 22009: Dec 22010: Nov 272011: Nov 112013: Nov 242014: Nov 182015: Dec 42016: Dec 82018: Nov 132019: Oct 272020: Oct 282021: Dec 202022: Nov 27

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
2022Mar 25Nov 27Feb 17Dec 16
2021Mar 2Dec 20Feb 20none
2020no dataOct 28no dataOct 29
2019Mar 6Oct 27Jan 25Dec 19
2018Jan 30Nov 13Jan 20Nov 13
2017Feb 1no dataJan 31no data
2016Feb 11Dec 8Feb 8Dec 8
2015Mar 7Dec 4Jan 9Dec 15
2014Mar 18Nov 18Feb 13Dec 24
2013Mar 15Nov 24Mar 11Nov 25
2011Feb 14Nov 11Feb 14Nov 28
2010Mar 22Nov 27Mar 22Dec 1
2009no dataDec 2no dataDec 5
2008no dataDec 2no dataDec 6
2007no dataNov 24no dataDec 16

"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.