Last Frost Day

Frost history / Wildwood, TX

Wildwood, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00419754, 2002 to 2016, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 200 ft, 30.535, -94.446. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMar 8Nov 18
EarliestFeb 13 (2012)Nov 4 (2011)
LatestApr 8 (2009)Dec 5 (2009)
Trendlittle change (less than half a day per decade)11.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data1312

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 26 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)

Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 1520102002: Mar 62003: Mar 312006: Feb 202007: Mar 62008: Mar 92009: Apr 82010: Mar 52011: Mar 122012: Feb 132013: Mar 282014: Mar 82015: Mar 82016: Mar 22

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 1120102002: Nov 282003: Nov 252006: Nov 212007: Dec 42008: Nov 162009: Dec 52010: Nov 62011: Nov 42012: Nov 152013: Nov 132014: Nov 142015: Nov 22

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
2016Mar 22no dataFeb 6no data
2015Mar 8Nov 22Mar 8none
2014Mar 8Nov 14Mar 4Nov 14
2013Mar 28Nov 13Mar 4Nov 29
2012Feb 13Nov 15Jan 15Dec 11
2011Mar 12Nov 4Feb 14Dec 8
2010Mar 5Nov 6Feb 26Nov 27
2009Apr 8Dec 5Mar 3Dec 5
2008Mar 9Nov 16Feb 2Dec 2
2007Mar 6Dec 4Mar 6Dec 4
2006Feb 20Nov 21Feb 13Nov 21
2003Mar 31Nov 25Jan 25Nov 25
2002Mar 6Nov 28Mar 6none

"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.