Last Frost Day

Frost history / Houston Clover Fld, TX

Houston Clover Fld, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00012975, 1997 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 44 ft, 29.519, -95.242. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianFeb 13Dec 8
EarliestJan 5 (2000)Nov 3 (1999)
LatestMar 5 (2019)Dec 27 (2001)
Trend2.2 days later per decade3.2 days earlier per decade
Years with data26, 5 with no freeze26, 9 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 20 and the median first fall date is Dec 24.

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)

Dec 31Jan 15Jan 30Feb 14Mar 1Mar 162000201020202000: Jan 52001: Jan 212002: Mar 52003: Feb 172004: Feb 72006: Feb 132007: Mar 52008: Jan 202009: Feb 32010: Feb 252011: Feb 132012: Jan 142013: Jan 172014: Mar 32015: Feb 262017: Jan 82018: Jan 182019: Mar 52021: Feb 202022: Feb 282024: Jan 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 11Dec 26Jan 102000201020201997: Dec 141999: Nov 32000: Dec 172001: Dec 272003: Dec 172004: Dec 152006: Dec 12009: Dec 52010: Dec 12011: Nov 282012: Dec 212013: Dec 162017: Dec 82018: Nov 142019: Nov 132020: Dec 12022: Dec 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
2024Jan 20noneJan 17none
2023nonenonenonenone
2022Feb 28Dec 22noneDec 22
2021Feb 20noneFeb 19none
2020noneDec 1nonenone
2019Mar 5Nov 13nonenone
2018Jan 18Nov 14Jan 18none
2017Jan 8Dec 8Jan 7none
2016nonenonenonenone
2015Feb 26nonenonenone
2014Mar 3noneJan 30none
2013Jan 17Dec 16nonenone
2012Jan 14Dec 21nonenone
2011Feb 13Nov 28Feb 12none
2010Feb 25Dec 1Jan 11none
2009Feb 3Dec 5nonenone
2008Jan 20no datanoneno data
2007Mar 5nonenonenone
2006Feb 13Dec 1nonenone
2005nonenonenonenone
2004Feb 7Dec 15noneDec 26
2003Feb 17Dec 17Jan 24none
2002Mar 5noneMar 4none
2001Jan 21Dec 27Jan 20none
2000Jan 5Dec 17Jan 5none
1999no dataNov 3no datanone
1998noneno datanoneno data
1997no dataDec 14no datanone

"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.