Emporia 3 Nw, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00142548, 1984 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,238 ft, 38.429, -96.219. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 11	Oct 26
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 1 (2005)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	0.6 days earlier per decade	5.1 days later per decade
Years with data	34	35

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 and the median first fall date is Nov 6.

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)

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	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 10
2021	Apr 23	Nov 13	Apr 2	Nov 13
2020	Apr 19	Oct 26	Apr 16	Oct 26
2018	Apr 20	no data	Apr 16	no data
2016	Apr 3	no data	Apr 2	no data
2015	Apr 5	Oct 29	Apr 5	Nov 22
2014	Apr 19	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 1
2013	Apr 25	Nov 12	Mar 27	Nov 12
2012	Mar 10	Oct 27	Feb 25	Nov 12
2011	Mar 29	Oct 20	Mar 28	Nov 17
2010	Mar 23	Nov 5	Mar 23	Nov 18
2009	Apr 8	Oct 11	Apr 8	Nov 19
2008	Apr 15	Oct 25	Apr 15	Oct 27
2007	Apr 16	Nov 2	Apr 10	Nov 6
2006	Mar 29	Oct 14	Mar 26	Oct 22
2005	May 1	Oct 24	Mar 20	Nov 16
2004	Apr 12	Nov 12	Mar 13	Nov 25
2003	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 10	Nov 6
2002	Apr 5	Nov 1	Apr 4	Nov 22
2001	no data	Oct 26	no data	Nov 9
2000	Apr 9	Oct 7	Mar 17	Oct 8
1999	Mar 27	Oct 24	Mar 27	Nov 25
1998	Mar 22	Nov 11	Mar 22	Dec 7
1997	Apr 15	Oct 27	Apr 14	Oct 27
1996	Apr 14	Oct 23	Apr 7	Nov 2
1995	Apr 13	Sep 22	Mar 31	Nov 3
1994	Apr 30	Oct 25	Apr 7	Nov 23
1993	Apr 5	Oct 27	Apr 3	Oct 27
1992	Apr 22	Nov 3	Apr 3	Nov 4
1991	Mar 31	Oct 6	Mar 31	Oct 19
1990	Apr 13	Oct 10	Apr 12	Nov 5
1989	Apr 12	Oct 18	Apr 11	Oct 20
1988	Mar 20	Oct 28	Mar 20	Oct 28
1987	Apr 7	Oct 21	Apr 7	Oct 21
1986	Apr 23	Nov 9	Mar 21	Nov 11
1985	no data	Sep 30	no data	Oct 1
1984	no data	Sep 30	no data	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.