Frost history / Ft Worth Meacham Fld, TX
Ft Worth Meacham Fld, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013961, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 687 ft, 32.819, -97.361. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 9 | Nov 22 |
| Earliest | Jan 27 (2017) | Oct 27 (2012) |
| Latest | Apr 9 (2003) | Dec 9 (1998) |
| Trend | 4.0 days earlier per decade | 0.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 33 | 33 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 26 and the median first fall date is Dec 5.
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 | Nov 29 | Feb 18 | none |
| 2023 | Mar 19 | Nov 1 | Feb 1 | none |
| 2022 | Mar 12 | Nov 12 | Mar 12 | Dec 22 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | Nov 26 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Nov 30 | Feb 21 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 6 | Nov 12 |
| 2018 | Feb 12 | Nov 12 | Feb 12 | Nov 14 |
| 2017 | Jan 27 | Dec 7 | Jan 8 | Dec 8 |
| 2016 | Feb 4 | Dec 8 | Jan 23 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 6 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | Nov 12 | Mar 4 | Nov 14 |
| 2013 | Mar 26 | no data | Mar 26 | no data |
| 2012 | Feb 12 | Oct 27 | Feb 12 | Dec 10 |
| 2011 | Mar 6 | Nov 4 | Feb 12 | Dec 6 |
| 2010 | Mar 21 | Nov 25 | Feb 24 | Dec 6 |
| 2009 | Apr 7 | Dec 2 | Mar 1 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Mar 8 | Nov 21 | Mar 8 | Dec 4 |
| 2007 | Mar 4 | Dec 3 | Mar 4 | Dec 16 |
| 2006 | Mar 24 | Nov 30 | Feb 19 | Nov 30 |
| 2005 | Mar 17 | Nov 17 | Jan 23 | Dec 5 |
| 2004 | Feb 26 | Dec 1 | Feb 15 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Apr 9 | Nov 23 | Mar 6 | Nov 24 |
| 2002 | Mar 26 | Nov 27 | Mar 22 | Nov 27 |
| 2001 | Feb 28 | Nov 20 | Feb 18 | Nov 28 |
| 2000 | Feb 19 | Nov 9 | Feb 5 | Dec 11 |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 | Jan 14 | Dec 6 |
| 1998 | Mar 12 | Dec 9 | Mar 12 | Dec 21 |
| 1996 | Mar 25 | Nov 24 | Mar 21 | Nov 26 |
| 1995 | Mar 9 | Nov 11 | Mar 9 | Dec 9 |
| 1994 | Apr 6 | Nov 30 | Feb 26 | Dec 26 |
| 1993 | Mar 14 | Oct 30 | Mar 13 | Oct 30 |
| 1992 | no data | Nov 5 | no data | Nov 27 |
| 1952 | Mar 23 | Nov 26 | Mar 23 | Dec 14 |
| 1951 | Mar 19 | Nov 2 | Mar 13 | 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.