Ft Scott, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00142835, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 884 ft, 37.817, -94.699. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 30 (1984)
Latest	May 3 (1976)	Nov 13 (2016)
Trend	1.7 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	69	69

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