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Frost history / Kim 10SSE, CO

Kim 10SSE, CO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00054546, 1989 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 5,257 ft, 37.115, -103.299. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 1Oct 11
EarliestApr 5 (2012)Sep 9 (2001)
LatestMay 25 (2002)Nov 9 (2016)
Trend4.3 days earlier per decade5.7 days later per decade
Years with data3736

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 18 and the median first fall date is Oct 18.

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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 3019902000201020201989: May 11990: May 101991: May 11992: Apr 221993: May 21994: May 11995: Apr 281996: May 11997: May 31998: Apr 291999: May 72000: May 192001: May 212002: May 252003: May 112004: May 142005: May 52006: May 112007: Apr 272008: May 112009: Apr 82010: May 22011: May 32012: Apr 52013: May 62014: Apr 162015: Apr 102016: Apr 62017: May 12018: Apr 192019: Apr 122020: Apr 262021: Apr 302022: Apr 172023: Apr 292024: Apr 172025: May 15

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 2619902000201020201989: Oct 171990: Oct 91991: Oct 51992: Oct 81993: Oct 91994: Sep 221995: Sep 211996: Sep 281997: Oct 131998: Oct 61999: Sep 292000: Sep 252001: Sep 92002: Oct 42003: Oct 142004: Oct 142005: Oct 72006: Oct 192007: Oct 82008: Oct 232009: Oct 22010: Oct 262011: Oct 182012: Oct 82013: Oct 62014: Nov 52016: Nov 92017: Oct 112018: Oct 152019: Oct 112020: Oct 162021: Oct 162022: Oct 132023: Oct 142024: Oct 312025: Oct 19

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025May 15Oct 19Apr 20Oct 19
2024Apr 17Oct 31Apr 16Oct 31
2023Apr 29Oct 14Apr 22Oct 15
2022Apr 17Oct 13Apr 15Oct 25
2021Apr 30Oct 16Apr 21Oct 16
2020Apr 26Oct 16Apr 15Oct 26
2019Apr 12Oct 11Apr 11Oct 11
2018Apr 19Oct 15Apr 8Oct 15
2017May 1Oct 11Mar 8Nov 19
2016Apr 6Nov 9Apr 2Nov 12
2015Apr 10no dataMar 15no data
2014Apr 16Nov 5Apr 15Nov 11
2013May 6Oct 6May 3Oct 19
2012Apr 5Oct 8Mar 14Oct 27
2011May 3Oct 18Apr 16Oct 19
2010May 2Oct 26Apr 9Oct 26
2009Apr 8Oct 2Apr 7Oct 2
2008May 11Oct 23May 11Nov 7
2007Apr 27Oct 8Apr 26Oct 18
2006May 11Oct 19Apr 25Oct 19
2005May 5Oct 7May 4Oct 24
2004May 14Oct 14Apr 12Oct 14
2003May 11Oct 14Apr 9Oct 14
2002May 25Oct 4Apr 23Oct 14
2001May 21Sep 9Apr 22Oct 11
2000May 19Sep 25Apr 16Sep 25
1999May 7Sep 29Apr 18Sep 29
1998Apr 29Oct 6Apr 22Oct 18
1997May 3Oct 13Apr 15Oct 29
1996May 1Sep 28Apr 30Oct 18
1995Apr 28Sep 21Apr 24Oct 14
1994May 1Sep 22Apr 30Oct 9
1993May 2Oct 9Apr 21Oct 11
1992Apr 22Oct 8Apr 1Oct 8
1991May 1Oct 5May 1Oct 5
1990May 10Oct 9May 4Oct 9
1989May 1Oct 17May 1Oct 19

"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.