Stephenville, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003969, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,290 ft, 32.231, -98.232. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 20	Nov 11
Earliest	Feb 15 (1985)	Oct 9 (2012)
Latest	Apr 16 (2014)	Dec 11 (1961)
Trend	1.3 days earlier per decade	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	58	59

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 8 and the median first fall date is Nov 23.

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.

Chart

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	Dec 1	Feb 18	none
2023	Mar 19	Nov 26	Feb 17	none
2022	Mar 13	Nov 12	Mar 12	Dec 21
2021	Feb 20	Dec 7	Feb 20	Dec 7
2020	Feb 27	Nov 30	Feb 27	Dec 14
2019	Mar 6	Oct 31	Mar 6	Oct 31
2018	Apr 7	Nov 12	Feb 12	Nov 12
2017	Feb 16	Oct 28	Jan 8	Dec 8
2016	Mar 28	Nov 20	Mar 21	Dec 8
2015	Mar 8	Nov 22	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 12	Apr 15	Nov 12
2013	Mar 27	Nov 8	Mar 27	Nov 13
2012	Mar 5	Oct 9	Feb 26	Oct 28
2011	Apr 5	Oct 29	Mar 7	Nov 4
2008	Apr 15	no data	Mar 9	no data
2007	Apr 8	Nov 22	Mar 5	Dec 13
2006	Mar 25	Nov 20	Mar 24	Nov 30
2005	Mar 18	Oct 24	Mar 17	Nov 17
2004	Feb 27	Nov 4	Feb 16	Dec 1
2003	Apr 10	Nov 24	Mar 30	Nov 24
2002	Mar 26	Nov 27	Mar 23	Nov 27
2001	Mar 20	Nov 21	Feb 18	Nov 21
2000	Mar 12	Nov 9	Feb 6	Nov 14
1999	Mar 16	Nov 3	Mar 15	Dec 6
1998	Mar 21	Dec 9	Mar 13	Dec 9
1997	Apr 14	Nov 7	Mar 6	Nov 11
1996	Mar 27	Nov 25	Mar 25	Nov 25
1995	Mar 10	Nov 11	Mar 9	Nov 29
1994	no data	Nov 28	no data	Nov 30
1993	Mar 14	Oct 29	Mar 14	Oct 30
1992	Mar 11	Nov 4	Mar 11	Nov 5
1991	Mar 8	Oct 31	Feb 1	Nov 2
1990	Apr 7	Nov 5	Feb 4	Nov 30
1989	Apr 11	Oct 19	Apr 11	Nov 3
1988	Mar 30	Nov 17	Mar 19	Nov 17
1987	Apr 3	Nov 10	Mar 31	Nov 11
1986	Mar 21	Nov 11	Feb 21	Nov 13
1985	Feb 15	Nov 20	Feb 12	Dec 1
1984	Mar 6	Nov 11	Feb 28	Dec 3
1983	Apr 15	Nov 24	Mar 21	Nov 29
1982	Mar 7	Nov 4	Mar 7	Nov 5
1981	Mar 19	Nov 20	Feb 12	Dec 2
1980	Mar 18	Oct 30	Mar 18	Oct 30
1979	no data	Nov 11	no data	Nov 23
1978	Mar 17	no data	Mar 9	no data
1977	Mar 22	Nov 10	Feb 27	Nov 10
1976	no data	Oct 20	no data	Nov 13
1975	Apr 3	Nov 13	Apr 3	Nov 21
1974	Mar 25	Nov 15	Mar 24	Nov 30
1963	Mar 7	Nov 2	Feb 23	Nov 24
1962	Mar 17	Dec 6	Mar 17	Dec 12
1961	Apr 16	Dec 11	Feb 20	Dec 11
1960	no data	Nov 9	no data	Nov 9
1959	Mar 21	no data	Feb 7	no data
1958	Mar 19	Nov 28	Feb 18	Nov 28
1957	Apr 14	Oct 27	Mar 7	Dec 8
1956	Mar 16	Nov 8	Mar 15	Nov 8
1955	Mar 29	Nov 2	Mar 29	Nov 16
1954	Apr 1	Nov 4	Mar 15	Dec 12
1953	Mar 5	Nov 8	Feb 22	Nov 9
1952	Mar 28	Oct 29	Mar 24	Nov 26
1951	Mar 20	Nov 2	Mar 14	Nov 3

"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.