Last Frost Day

Frost history / Clinton Lake, KS

Clinton Lake, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00141612, 1977 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 980 ft, 38.941, -95.340. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 23
EarliestMar 10 (2012)Sep 22 (1995)
LatestMay 7 (1989)Nov 12 (2016)
Trend0.8 days earlier per decade1.5 days later per decade
Years with data4442

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 4 and the median first fall date is Nov 1.

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 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15198019902000201020201978: Apr 211979: Apr 141980: Apr 141981: Mar 231982: Apr 101983: Apr 191984: Apr 211985: Apr 91986: Apr 221987: Apr 51988: Apr 191989: May 71990: Apr 171991: Mar 301992: Apr 231993: Apr 91994: May 11995: May 21996: Apr 301997: Apr 171998: Apr 21999: Mar 262000: Apr 122001: Apr 182002: Apr 42003: Apr 102007: Apr 152008: Apr 262009: Apr 122010: Mar 292011: Apr 52012: Mar 102013: Apr 252015: Apr 52016: Apr 142017: Apr 82018: Apr 192019: Apr 132020: Apr 172021: Apr 222022: Apr 262023: Apr 242024: Mar 282025: Apr 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26198019902000201020201977: Oct 121978: Oct 161979: Oct 131980: Oct 251981: Oct 231983: Nov 101984: Oct 251985: Nov 71986: Nov 101987: Oct 31988: Oct 71989: Sep 241990: Oct 251991: Oct 61992: Oct 171993: Oct 101994: Oct 251995: Sep 221996: Oct 221997: Oct 271998: Nov 111999: Oct 42002: Oct 162005: Oct 242007: Oct 282008: Oct 272009: Oct 102010: Oct 292011: Oct 192012: Oct 62013: Oct 192014: Oct 312015: Oct 292016: Nov 122017: Oct 282018: Oct 152019: Oct 292020: Oct 252021: Nov 22022: Oct 172023: Oct 282024: Oct 16

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
2025Apr 8no dataMar 21no data
2024Mar 28Oct 16Mar 28Nov 22
2023Apr 24Oct 28Apr 6Oct 30
2022Apr 26Oct 17Apr 15Oct 18
2021Apr 22Nov 2Apr 1Nov 3
2020Apr 17Oct 25Apr 13Oct 25
2019Apr 13Oct 29Mar 31Oct 31
2018Apr 19Oct 15Apr 11Nov 8
2017Apr 8Oct 28Mar 16Oct 28
2016Apr 14Nov 12Apr 14Nov 19
2015Apr 5Oct 29Apr 4Nov 21
2014no dataOct 31no dataNov 1
2013Apr 25Oct 19Apr 24Nov 11
2012Mar 10Oct 6Mar 9Oct 6
2011Apr 5Oct 19Apr 5Oct 20
2010Mar 29Oct 29Mar 22Nov 6
2009Apr 12Oct 10Apr 7Nov 26
2008Apr 26Oct 27Apr 14Oct 28
2007Apr 15Oct 28Apr 9Nov 1
2005no dataOct 24no dataNov 16
2003Apr 10no dataApr 9no data
2002Apr 4Oct 16Apr 4Nov 1
2001Apr 18no dataApr 1no data
2000Apr 12no dataApr 8no data
1999Mar 26Oct 4Mar 26Oct 24
1998Apr 2Nov 11Mar 21Nov 20
1997Apr 17Oct 27Apr 13Oct 27
1996Apr 30Oct 22Apr 6Oct 23
1995May 2Sep 22Mar 31Nov 3
1994May 1Oct 25Apr 8Oct 26
1993Apr 9Oct 10Apr 5Oct 30
1992Apr 23Oct 17Apr 23Nov 6
1991Mar 30Oct 6Mar 29Oct 19
1990Apr 17Oct 25Apr 6Nov 5
1989May 7Sep 24Apr 11Oct 20
1988Apr 19Oct 7Mar 19Oct 28
1987Apr 5Oct 3Apr 4Oct 21
1986Apr 22Nov 10Mar 22Nov 10
1985Apr 9Nov 7Apr 1Nov 20
1984Apr 21Oct 25Mar 30Nov 2
1983Apr 19Nov 10Apr 15Nov 11
1982Apr 10no dataApr 9no data
1981Mar 23Oct 23Mar 20Oct 23
1980Apr 14Oct 25Mar 21Oct 26
1979Apr 14Oct 13Apr 6Nov 2
1978Apr 21Oct 16Mar 26Nov 7
1977no dataOct 12no dataNov 10

"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.