El Dorado, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00142401, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,290 ft, 37.818, -96.844. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 21
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 11 (1981)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	1.4 days earlier per decade	1.4 days later per decade
Years with data	67	70

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