Frost history / Ft Worth Meacham Fld Naaf, TX
Ft Worth Meacham Fld Naaf, TX: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00093904, 2010 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 705 ft, 32.817, -97.350. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 23 | Nov 17 |
| Earliest | Jan 27 (2017) | Oct 27 (2012) |
| Latest | Mar 19 (2023) | Dec 8 (2017) |
| Trend | 3.5 days later per decade | 2.9 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 10 | 12 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 15 and the median first fall date is Dec 7.
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 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Dec 21 |
| 2021 | Feb 18 | no data | Feb 18 | no data |
| 2020 | Feb 27 | Nov 30 | Feb 27 | Dec 1 |
| 2019 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 | Mar 6 | Oct 31 |
| 2018 | Feb 12 | no data | Feb 12 | no data |
| 2017 | Jan 27 | Dec 8 | Jan 8 | Dec 8 |
| 2016 | Feb 4 | Dec 8 | Jan 23 | Dec 9 |
| 2015 | Mar 7 | Nov 22 | Mar 6 | none |
| 2014 | no data | Nov 12 | no data | Nov 14 |
| 2012 | no data | Oct 27 | no data | Dec 10 |
| 2011 | Mar 6 | Nov 4 | Feb 12 | Dec 7 |
| 2010 | no data | Nov 26 | no data | Dec 6 |
"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.