Columbus, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00141740, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 893 ft, 37.177, -94.843. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 12	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 30 (1984)
Latest	May 4 (1954)	Nov 25 (2004)
Trend	1.6 days earlier per decade	2.0 days later per decade
Years with data	63	65

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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