Frost history / Town Bluff Dam, TX
Town Bluff Dam, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00419101, 1970 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 214 ft, 30.793, -94.182. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 7 | Nov 20 |
| Earliest | Jan 24 (2005) | Oct 19 (2022) |
| Latest | Apr 21 (2021) | Dec 15 (2004) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.6 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 50 | 45, 1 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 16 and the median first fall date is Dec 1.
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 | Mar 22 | Nov 11 | Feb 24 | Dec 15 |
| 2024 | Feb 20 | Nov 30 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 21 | Nov 2 | Mar 20 | Dec 11 |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Oct 19 | Feb 28 | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | Apr 21 | none | Apr 21 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 28 | Dec 1 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Apr 2 | Nov 1 | Mar 6 | Nov 13 |
| 2018 | Jan 31 | Nov 14 | Jan 26 | Nov 15 |
| 2017 | Feb 17 | Oct 29 | Jan 10 | Oct 29 |
| 2016 | Mar 22 | Nov 20 | Feb 8 | none |
| 2015 | no data | Nov 23 | no data | none |
| 2014 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | Nov 14 | Mar 3 | Nov 28 |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | Nov 25 | Feb 12 | Dec 13 |
| 2011 | Mar 11 | Nov 11 | Feb 12 | Dec 8 |
| 2010 | Mar 4 | Nov 27 | Mar 3 | Dec 1 |
| 2009 | Mar 2 | Dec 5 | Feb 4 | Dec 5 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Oct 28 | Feb 2 | Dec 2 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | Dec 4 | Mar 5 | Dec 17 |
| 2006 | Feb 20 | no data | Feb 13 | no data |
| 2005 | Jan 24 | no data | Jan 24 | no data |
| 2004 | Feb 27 | Dec 15 | Feb 7 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Mar 31 | no data | Jan 24 | no data |
| 2002 | Mar 5 | no data | Mar 5 | no data |
| 2001 | no data | Nov 30 | no data | Dec 27 |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | no data | Jan 11 | no data |
| 1998 | Mar 13 | no data | none | no data |
| 1997 | Feb 12 | no data | Jan 19 | no data |
| 1996 | Apr 7 | Dec 2 | Mar 11 | Dec 19 |
| 1995 | Mar 8 | Nov 12 | Jan 31 | Dec 10 |
| 1994 | Mar 29 | Dec 1 | Feb 14 | none |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | no data | Mar 14 | no data |
| 1992 | Feb 8 | Nov 6 | Jan 21 | Nov 28 |
| 1991 | Mar 4 | Nov 4 | Feb 16 | Nov 4 |
| 1990 | Mar 4 | Nov 6 | none | Nov 30 |
| 1989 | Mar 10 | Oct 20 | Mar 9 | Oct 20 |
| 1988 | Mar 19 | Nov 23 | Mar 19 | Nov 23 |
| 1987 | Apr 4 | Nov 11 | Mar 31 | Nov 11 |
| 1986 | Mar 23 | Dec 3 | Mar 1 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 16 | Dec 2 | Feb 16 | Dec 14 |
| 1984 | Mar 7 | Nov 12 | Mar 1 | Nov 23 |
| 1983 | Mar 22 | Nov 25 | Jan 16 | Nov 29 |
| 1982 | Mar 8 | Dec 12 | Feb 7 | Dec 13 |
| 1981 | Feb 15 | Nov 21 | Feb 13 | Nov 21 |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | Nov 19 | Mar 3 | Dec 11 |
| 1979 | Mar 5 | Nov 14 | Feb 12 | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | Mar 10 | Dec 4 | Mar 10 | Dec 9 |
| 1977 | Feb 28 | Nov 11 | Feb 16 | Dec 7 |
| 1976 | Mar 18 | no data | Feb 8 | no data |
| 1975 | no data | Nov 14 | no data | Nov 23 |
| 1974 | Feb 27 | Nov 26 | Feb 26 | Dec 1 |
| 1973 | Feb 18 | no data | Feb 11 | no data |
| 1972 | Mar 3 | Dec 1 | Feb 9 | Dec 1 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Nov 25 | Mar 8 | none |
| 1970 | no data | Nov 16 | no data | Nov 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.