Frost history / Toledo Bend Dam, TX
Toledo Bend Dam, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00419068, 1975 to 2004, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 190 ft, 31.175, -93.565. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 8 | Nov 14 |
| Earliest | Feb 6 (1990) | Oct 20 (1989) |
| Latest | Apr 12 (1989) | Dec 14 (1998) |
| Trend | 4.0 days earlier per decade | 3.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 25 | 28 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 17 and the median first fall date is Nov 30.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Feb 28 | no data | Feb 8 | no data |
| 2003 | no data | Nov 25 | no data | Nov 25 |
| 2002 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | Dec 2 |
| 2001 | Feb 20 | Oct 28 | Feb 6 | Dec 27 |
| 2000 | Feb 20 | Nov 15 | Feb 7 | Dec 5 |
| 1999 | no data | Nov 26 | no data | Dec 16 |
| 1998 | no data | Dec 14 | no data | Dec 23 |
| 1997 | Feb 18 | no data | Feb 16 | no data |
| 1996 | Apr 8 | Nov 26 | Mar 12 | Dec 2 |
| 1995 | Mar 11 | Nov 12 | Mar 10 | Nov 30 |
| 1994 | Mar 29 | Dec 2 | Feb 15 | Dec 11 |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Oct 31 | Mar 15 | Nov 1 |
| 1992 | Feb 9 | Nov 6 | Jan 21 | Nov 28 |
| 1991 | Feb 26 | Nov 4 | Feb 17 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Feb 6 | Nov 6 | Jan 14 | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | Apr 12 | Oct 20 | Mar 8 | Dec 4 |
| 1988 | Apr 12 | Nov 23 | Apr 12 | Nov 30 |
| 1987 | Apr 6 | Nov 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 12 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | Nov 14 | Mar 22 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 17 | Dec 2 | Feb 17 | Dec 3 |
| 1984 | Mar 8 | Nov 22 | Mar 1 | Dec 7 |
| 1983 | Mar 22 | Nov 25 | Jan 24 | Nov 29 |
| 1982 | Mar 8 | Nov 5 | Feb 11 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | Mar 20 | Nov 21 | Feb 13 | Nov 21 |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | Oct 31 | Mar 4 | Nov 19 |
| 1979 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 | Feb 25 | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 11 | Dec 4 | Mar 10 | Dec 10 |
| 1977 | Feb 28 | Nov 11 | Feb 28 | Dec 7 |
| 1976 | Mar 17 | Oct 21 | Feb 7 | Nov 29 |
| 1975 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 23 |
"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.