Frost history / Austin 33 Nw, TX
Austin 33 Nw, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00023907, 2008 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,361 ft, 30.622, -98.085. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 22 | Dec 4 |
| Earliest | Jan 8 (2017) | Oct 31 (2019) |
| Latest | Mar 25 (2013) | Dec 29 (2023) |
| Trend | 1.7 days earlier per decade | 3.2 days earlier per decade |
| Years with data | 16 | 17, 2 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 12 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 | Jan 20 | none |
| 2023 | Feb 17 | Dec 29 | Feb 1 | none |
| 2022 | Mar 12 | Nov 15 | Mar 12 | Dec 22 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | none | Feb 19 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Nov 30 | Feb 6 | none |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 5 | Nov 11 |
| 2018 | Feb 12 | Nov 13 | Feb 12 | Nov 14 |
| 2017 | Jan 8 | Dec 7 | Jan 8 | Dec 8 |
| 2016 | Jan 23 | Dec 8 | none | Dec 17 |
| 2015 | Mar 6 | Dec 18 | Mar 6 | none |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | Nov 12 | Mar 4 | Nov 17 |
| 2013 | Mar 25 | Nov 13 | Jan 16 | Dec 5 |
| 2012 | Feb 12 | Dec 11 | Feb 12 | Dec 25 |
| 2011 | Feb 11 | Dec 5 | Feb 11 | Dec 7 |
| 2010 | Feb 24 | Dec 6 | Feb 15 | Dec 26 |
| 2009 | Mar 1 | Dec 3 | Jan 29 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | no data | Dec 4 | no data | Dec 10 |
"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.