Frost history / Houston Hooks Mem Ap, TX
Houston Hooks Mem Ap, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00053910, 1998 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 152 ft, 30.067, -95.556. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 20 | Nov 30 |
| Earliest | Jan 8 (2017) | Nov 1 (2019) |
| Latest | Mar 15 (1999) | Dec 25 (1998) |
| Trend | 0.6 days earlier per decade | 1.6 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 27 | 27, 3 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 22 and the median first fall date is Dec 15.
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 19 | none | Jan 17 | none |
| 2023 | Feb 18 | Dec 11 | none | none |
| 2022 | Mar 13 | Dec 18 | Feb 13 | Dec 22 |
| 2021 | Feb 20 | none | Feb 20 | none |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 | none | none |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Nov 1 | none | Dec 18 |
| 2018 | Jan 25 | Nov 13 | Jan 18 | none |
| 2017 | Jan 8 | Dec 7 | Jan 8 | none |
| 2016 | Feb 5 | Dec 18 | none | none |
| 2015 | Mar 6 | none | none | none |
| 2014 | Mar 4 | Nov 14 | Mar 3 | none |
| 2013 | Mar 12 | Nov 27 | Jan 17 | none |
| 2012 | Jan 14 | Dec 11 | Jan 13 | Dec 11 |
| 2011 | Feb 13 | Nov 4 | Feb 13 | Dec 7 |
| 2010 | Feb 25 | Nov 26 | Feb 17 | Nov 27 |
| 2009 | Mar 2 | Dec 4 | Jan 21 | Dec 4 |
| 2008 | Feb 27 | Nov 16 | Jan 20 | Dec 12 |
| 2007 | Mar 5 | Dec 4 | Feb 16 | none |
| 2006 | Feb 13 | Nov 21 | Feb 12 | none |
| 2005 | Jan 24 | Dec 6 | none | Dec 6 |
| 2004 | Feb 7 | Dec 1 | Jan 28 | Dec 15 |
| 2003 | Feb 17 | Nov 25 | Jan 24 | Dec 17 |
| 2002 | Mar 5 | Dec 5 | Mar 5 | none |
| 2001 | Feb 10 | Nov 30 | Jan 20 | none |
| 2000 | Feb 6 | Nov 14 | Jan 5 | Dec 17 |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | Nov 3 | Jan 5 | Dec 15 |
| 1998 | Mar 1 | Dec 25 | none | Dec 26 |
"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.