Coldwater, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00141704, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,115 ft, 37.273, -99.329. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 24
Earliest	Mar 9 (2012)	Sep 21 (1983)
Latest	May 14 (1953)	Nov 18 (2021)
Trend	2.1 days earlier per decade	1.0 days later per decade
Years with data	73	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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 7	Oct 30	Apr 7	Nov 10
2024	Mar 28	Oct 16	Mar 27	Nov 26
2023	no data	Oct 28	no data	Oct 30
2022	no data	Nov 5	no data	Nov 11
2021	Apr 21	Nov 18	Apr 21	Nov 18
2020	Apr 17	Oct 24	Apr 15	Oct 24
2019	Apr 12	Oct 11	Apr 12	Oct 11
2018	Apr 16	no data	Apr 16	no data
2017	Mar 15	Oct 27	Mar 15	Oct 27
2016	Apr 2	Nov 12	Mar 27	Nov 19
2015	Apr 10	Nov 18	Mar 6	Nov 21
2014	Apr 15	Nov 1	Apr 15	Nov 11
2013	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 23	Nov 12
2012	Mar 9	Oct 7	Mar 3	Oct 27
2011	Apr 16	Nov 3	Mar 24	Nov 3
2010	Apr 8	Nov 5	Mar 22	Nov 5
2009	Apr 7	Oct 10	Apr 7	Nov 18
2008	Apr 14	Oct 24	Apr 1	Oct 27
2007	Apr 8	Nov 3	Apr 7	Nov 6
2006	Mar 25	Oct 22	Mar 24	Oct 22
2005	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 27	Oct 24
2004	Apr 13	Nov 3	Apr 13	Nov 24
2003	Apr 9	Oct 26	Apr 9	Nov 5
2002	Apr 4	Oct 24	Apr 3	Nov 1
2001	Apr 17	Oct 16	Mar 16	Nov 20
2000	Apr 17	Oct 8	Apr 8	Oct 8
1999	Apr 17	Oct 4	Mar 15	Nov 2
1998	Apr 17	Nov 10	Apr 4	Nov 20
1997	Apr 14	Oct 26	Apr 13	Oct 26
1996	Apr 15	Oct 18	Mar 31	Nov 11
1995	Apr 27	Sep 22	Apr 11	Oct 24
1994	May 1	Nov 10	Apr 6	Nov 15
1993	Apr 16	Oct 21	Mar 23	Oct 27
1992	Apr 4	Nov 2	Apr 1	Nov 4
1991	Mar 31	Oct 19	Mar 14	Oct 29
1990	Apr 11	Oct 18	Mar 26	Nov 5
1989	Apr 11	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 19
1988	Apr 19	Oct 28	Apr 19	Nov 16
1987	Apr 4	Nov 9	Apr 3	Nov 9
1986	Apr 15	Nov 5	Mar 21	Nov 9
1985	Mar 31	Sep 30	Mar 31	Oct 31
1984	May 8	Sep 30	Apr 30	Nov 2
1983	Apr 19	Sep 21	Apr 15	Nov 10
1982	Apr 21	Oct 11	Apr 6	Oct 20
1981	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 19	Oct 23
1980	Apr 15	Oct 24	Apr 14	Oct 29
1979	Apr 6	Oct 10	Apr 6	Nov 1
1978	Apr 21	Oct 26	Mar 26	Nov 14
1977	Apr 5	Oct 12	Mar 31	Nov 10
1976	Apr 1	Oct 8	Mar 30	Oct 20
1975	Apr 19	Oct 25	Apr 11	Oct 25
1974	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 16	Nov 6
1973	Apr 10	Nov 3	Apr 10	Nov 9
1972	Apr 4	Oct 19	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	Apr 6	Nov 3	Apr 6	Nov 3
1970	Apr 14	Oct 8	Apr 5	Oct 28
1969	Apr 28	Oct 14	Mar 30	Oct 14
1968	Apr 24	Oct 28	Apr 5	Nov 11
1967	May 2	Oct 27	Mar 18	Nov 3
1966	May 13	Oct 15	Apr 21	Oct 15
1965	Apr 28	Nov 14	Mar 30	Nov 27
1964	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 19
1963	Apr 23	Nov 1	Mar 17	Nov 1
1962	Apr 7	Oct 26	Apr 2	Oct 29
1961	Apr 17	Oct 19	Apr 12	Nov 3
1960	Apr 30	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
1959	Apr 22	Oct 27	Apr 13	Oct 27
1958	Apr 14	Oct 1	Mar 26	Nov 17
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 14	Oct 26
1956	Apr 29	Nov 4	Apr 7	Nov 8
1955	Mar 29	Oct 24	Mar 28	Oct 24
1954	May 3	Oct 30	May 3	Oct 31
1953	May 14	Oct 27	Apr 20	Nov 6
1952	Apr 14	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 7
1951	Apr 16	Oct 19	Apr 13	Nov 1

"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.