Elkhart, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00142432, 1952 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,599 ft, 37.006, -101.887. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 18	Oct 23
Earliest	Mar 16 (2017)	Sep 21 (1983)
Latest	May 18 (1986)	Nov 12 (2016)
Trend	1.9 days earlier per decade	1.2 days later per decade
Years with data	70	67

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 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.

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

"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.