Ft Worth Nas, TX: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013911, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 608 ft, 32.767, -97.450. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Mar 6	Nov 26
Earliest	Jan 27 (2017)	Oct 31 (2019)
Latest	Apr 13 (1957)	Dec 26 (1965)
Trend	2.9 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	41	41, 1 with no freeze

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 17 and the median first fall date is Dec 8.

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
2024	Feb 18	none	Feb 18	none
2023	Feb 18	Nov 27	Feb 1	none
2022	no data	Nov 13	no data	Dec 22
2020	Feb 27	Dec 1	none	none
2019	Mar 6	Oct 31	Mar 6	Nov 12
2018	Feb 22	Nov 13	Feb 11	Nov 14
2017	Jan 27	Dec 8	Jan 8	Dec 8
2016	Feb 9	Dec 8	none	Dec 17
2015	no data	Nov 22	no data	none
2014	Mar 4	Nov 17	Mar 3	none
2013	Mar 25	Nov 13	Jan 16	Dec 6
2012	Feb 12	no data	Jan 13	no data
2011	no data	Nov 28	no data	Dec 6
2010	Feb 27	no data	Feb 9	no data
2009	Mar 1	Dec 4	Jan 27	Dec 4
2008	no data	Dec 4	no data	Dec 10
2007	Mar 4	Dec 13	Feb 16	Dec 16
2005	Mar 17	Nov 30	Jan 23	Dec 6
2004	Feb 15	Dec 22	Feb 13	none
2003	Mar 6	Nov 24	Feb 25	none
2002	Mar 22	Nov 27	Mar 4	Nov 28
2001	Feb 18	Nov 28	Feb 17	Nov 28
1998	Mar 12	no data	Mar 12	no data
1997	Feb 15	Nov 11	Jan 30	Nov 16
1996	Mar 25	Nov 24	Mar 9	Dec 17
1970	Feb 26	Nov 15	Feb 3	Nov 16
1969	Mar 13	no data	Mar 11	no data
1968	Mar 23	Nov 9	Mar 4	Dec 8
1967	Mar 8	Nov 4	Mar 8	Dec 22
1966	Mar 7	Dec 1	Feb 17	Dec 10
1965	Mar 27	Dec 26	Mar 26	none
1964	Mar 26	Nov 20	Feb 22	Nov 22
1963	Mar 6	Nov 24	Feb 22	Dec 11
1962	Mar 15	Dec 11	Mar 2	Dec 11
1961	Feb 19	Dec 10	Jan 30	Dec 11
1960	Mar 18	Nov 10	Mar 5	Dec 20
1959	Mar 6	Nov 6	Feb 6	Nov 14
1958	Feb 17	Nov 28	Feb 17	Nov 29
1957	Apr 13	Dec 11	Jan 27	Dec 11
1956	Mar 13	Nov 17	Feb 5	Nov 29
1955	Mar 28	Nov 9	Mar 27	Nov 28
1954	Mar 15	Dec 13	Jan 23	Dec 29
1953	Feb 22	Dec 13	Feb 22	Dec 22
1952	Mar 23	Nov 26	Jan 23	Dec 14
1951	Mar 14	Nov 2	Feb 16	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.