Ashland, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00140365, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,970 ft, 37.194, -99.763. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 23	Oct 13
Earliest	Apr 2 (1981)	Sep 15 (1993)
Latest	May 14 (1971)	Nov 5 (1986)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	71	73

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.

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 15	Oct 22	Apr 7	Oct 30
2024	Apr 22	Oct 16	Mar 29	Oct 16
2023	Apr 24	Oct 7	Apr 9	Oct 30
2022	Apr 26	Oct 18	Apr 14	Oct 19
2020	May 9	Oct 20	Apr 18	Oct 24
2019	Apr 15	Oct 11	Apr 15	Oct 11
2018	Apr 26	Oct 15	Apr 19	Oct 16
2017	Apr 30	Oct 11	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 4	Oct 8	Apr 3	Nov 10
2015	Apr 11	Oct 25	Apr 10	Nov 8
2014	May 3	Oct 4	Apr 15	Nov 9
2013	May 4	Oct 17	May 3	Oct 19
2012	Apr 8	Oct 7	Mar 11	Oct 7
2011	May 3	Oct 20	May 3	Oct 28
2010	Apr 9	Oct 27	Apr 9	Oct 29
2009	Apr 14	Oct 3	Apr 8	Oct 27
2008	May 4	Oct 16	May 4	Oct 24
2007	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 15	Oct 25
2006	Apr 26	Oct 20	Apr 9	Oct 22
2005	May 4	Oct 8	Apr 2	Oct 24
2004	Apr 14	Oct 2	Apr 14	Nov 3
2003	Apr 11	Oct 26	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	Apr 5	Oct 13	Apr 5	Oct 14
2001	Apr 24	Oct 6	Apr 18	Oct 6
2000	Apr 17	Sep 26	Apr 8	Sep 26
1999	Apr 19	Oct 4	Apr 18	Oct 18
1998	Apr 22	Oct 22	Apr 18	Nov 11
1997	Apr 15	Oct 22	Apr 15	Oct 26
1996	Apr 30	Oct 18	Apr 30	Oct 18
1995	Apr 27	Sep 22	Apr 13	Oct 24
1994	May 1	Oct 26	May 1	Oct 26
1993	Apr 21	Sep 15	Apr 16	Oct 11
1992	Apr 27	Oct 9	Apr 3	Oct 9
1991	Apr 15	Sep 19	Mar 18	Oct 5
1990	Apr 12	Oct 10	Apr 7	Oct 10
1989	May 1	Sep 24	Apr 11	Sep 24
1988	Apr 29	Oct 26	Apr 13	Oct 31
1987	Apr 24	Oct 12	Apr 24	Oct 12
1986	Apr 17	Nov 5	Apr 16	Nov 9
1985	Apr 14	Sep 30	Apr 14	Sep 30
1984	no data	Sep 30	no data	Sep 30
1983	Apr 25	Sep 21	Apr 16	Nov 10
1982	Apr 24	Oct 11	Apr 23	Oct 14
1981	Apr 2	Oct 19	Mar 24	Oct 26
1980	Apr 16	Oct 4	Apr 15	Oct 25
1979	May 12	Oct 10	Apr 7	Oct 23
1978	Apr 25	Oct 14	Mar 25	Oct 27
1977	Apr 6	Oct 12	Apr 1	Oct 12
1976	Apr 6	Oct 8	Apr 2	Oct 8
1975	Apr 20	Sep 26	Apr 12	Oct 25
1974	Apr 17	Oct 15	Apr 9	Nov 14
1973	Apr 11	Oct 26	Apr 11	Oct 27
1972	Apr 24	Oct 19	Apr 5	Oct 25
1971	May 14	Oct 10	Apr 15	Oct 31
1970	May 1	Oct 13	Apr 6	Nov 5
1969	Apr 6	Oct 14	Mar 30	Oct 15
1968	Apr 29	Oct 28	Apr 24	Nov 11
1967	May 3	Sep 28	Mar 19	Nov 3
1966	May 13	Oct 1	May 13	Oct 16
1965	Apr 28	Oct 12	Apr 28	Nov 14
1964	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 20
1963	Apr 5	Nov 1	Mar 26	Nov 1
1962	Apr 9	Oct 26	Apr 8	Nov 4
1961	May 2	Oct 3	Apr 7	Oct 26
1960	May 12	no data	May 1	no data
1959	Apr 23	Oct 18	Apr 22	Oct 27
1958	Apr 14	Oct 1	Mar 31	Oct 1
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 14	Oct 26
1956	Apr 29	Oct 26	Apr 11	Oct 26
1955	Apr 7	Oct 24	Apr 4	Oct 24
1954	May 3	Oct 27	May 3	Oct 28
1953	May 14	Oct 7	May 14	Nov 9
1952	Apr 14	Oct 7	Apr 14	Oct 7
1951	no data	Oct 19	no data	Oct 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 to 2020 frost probabilities.