Abilene, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00140010, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,187 ft, 38.927, -97.213. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 16	Oct 20
Earliest	Mar 9 (2012)	Sep 21 (1982)
Latest	May 14 (1953)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	0.9 days earlier per decade	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	72	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.

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.

Chart

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
2025	Apr 9	Oct 30	Mar 21	Nov 10
2023	Apr 23	Oct 28	Apr 6	Oct 30
2022	Apr 26	Oct 18	Apr 9	Oct 18
2021	Apr 22	Nov 13	Apr 1	Nov 13
2020	Apr 17	Oct 24	Apr 14	Oct 26
2019	Apr 13	Oct 11	Mar 31	Oct 25
2018	Apr 19	Oct 15	Apr 15	Oct 15
2017	Apr 27	Oct 27	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 2	Nov 12	Apr 2	Nov 12
2015	Apr 4	Oct 29	Mar 6	Nov 13
2014	Apr 18	Oct 31	Apr 15	Nov 1
2013	Apr 25	Oct 18	Apr 24	Nov 12
2012	Mar 9	Oct 7	Mar 9	Oct 7
2011	Apr 16	Oct 20	Mar 15	Oct 20
2010	Apr 8	Nov 3	Mar 22	Nov 5
2009	Apr 14	Oct 10	Apr 7	Nov 18
2008	Apr 14	Oct 27	Apr 14	Oct 28
2007	Apr 15	Nov 1	Apr 8	Nov 1
2006	Mar 28	Oct 13	Mar 28	Oct 19
2005	May 3	Oct 24	Mar 27	Oct 25
2004	Apr 11	Nov 3	Apr 11	Nov 12
2003	Apr 9	Oct 25	Apr 9	Nov 5
2002	Mar 27	Oct 17	Mar 26	Nov 4
2001	Apr 18	Oct 26	Mar 26	Nov 9
2000	Apr 8	Oct 7	Mar 13	Oct 7
1999	Apr 4	Oct 4	Mar 26	Nov 19
1998	Mar 21	Nov 11	Mar 21	Dec 7
1997	Apr 14	Oct 27	Apr 13	Oct 27
1996	Apr 30	Oct 31	Apr 6	Nov 17
1995	Apr 27	Sep 22	Mar 30	Nov 3
1994	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 6	Nov 18
1993	Apr 2	Oct 21	Apr 2	Oct 30
1992	Apr 26	Nov 5	Apr 1	Nov 5
1991	May 6	Oct 6	Mar 30	Oct 30
1990	Apr 12	Oct 10	Apr 12	Nov 5
1989	Apr 19	Sep 24	Apr 19	Oct 19
1988	Apr 27	Oct 28	Mar 18	Oct 28
1987	Apr 5	Oct 3	Apr 5	Oct 21
1986	no data	Nov 5	no data	Nov 9
1985	Apr 10	no data	Apr 1	no data
1984	Apr 23	Sep 29	Mar 30	Sep 29
1983	Apr 24	Sep 21	Apr 15	Nov 11
1982	Apr 23	Sep 21	Apr 22	Oct 20
1981	Mar 23	Oct 19	Mar 23	Oct 23
1980	May 8	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 28
1979	Apr 9	Oct 23	Apr 9	Nov 2
1978	Apr 21	Oct 16	Apr 21	Oct 26
1977	Apr 5	Oct 11	Mar 31	Oct 12
1976	May 3	no data	May 3	no data
1975	Apr 12	Oct 18	Apr 12	Oct 25
1974	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 5	Nov 5
1973	Apr 12	Oct 28	Apr 11	Oct 29
1972	Apr 9	Oct 18	Apr 8	Oct 19
1971	Apr 14	Oct 10	Apr 7	Oct 31
1970	Apr 21	Oct 8	Apr 4	Oct 16
1969	Apr 19	Oct 14	Apr 6	Oct 14
1968	Apr 24	Oct 4	Apr 9	Nov 7
1967	May 2	Oct 19	May 2	Nov 4
1966	no data	Oct 1	no data	Oct 16
1965	Apr 28	Oct 12	Apr 28	Oct 22
1964	Apr 14	Oct 6	Apr 9	Oct 9
1963	May 1	Oct 29	Mar 25	Nov 1
1962	Apr 15	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 25
1961	Apr 19	Oct 20	Apr 18	Oct 26
1960	Apr 9	Oct 20	Apr 3	Nov 8
1959	Apr 22	Oct 18	Apr 13	Oct 27
1958	Mar 26	Oct 28	Mar 26	Nov 18
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 26
1956	Apr 24	Nov 8	Apr 17	Nov 8
1955	Mar 29	Oct 24	Mar 29	Nov 3
1954	May 3	Oct 30	Apr 4	Nov 2
1953	May 14	Oct 27	Apr 20	Oct 27
1952	Apr 11	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 6
1951	Apr 16	Oct 31	Apr 16	Nov 2

"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.