Frost history / Frankfort 6NE, KS
Frankfort 6NE, KS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00142881, 1954 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,264 ft, 39.776, -96.350. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 30 | Oct 11 |
| Earliest | Apr 9 (1955) | Sep 22 (1954) |
| Latest | May 22 (2022) | Oct 29 (1963) |
| Trend | 0.6 days earlier per decade | 1.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 30 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.
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 | Apr 9 | Oct 22 | Apr 9 | Nov 2 |
| 2024 | Apr 22 | Oct 16 | Apr 6 | Oct 16 |
| 2023 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 24 | Oct 28 |
| 2022 | May 22 | Oct 8 | Apr 27 | Oct 8 |
| 2021 | May 6 | Oct 17 | Apr 23 | Nov 3 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 2 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 15 | Oct 12 | Apr 14 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 27 | Oct 13 | Apr 16 | Oct 16 |
| 2017 | Apr 28 | Oct 28 | Apr 7 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Apr 13 | Oct 13 | Apr 13 | Nov 9 |
| 2015 | Apr 24 | Oct 25 | Apr 4 | Oct 29 |
| 2014 | May 17 | Oct 11 | Apr 19 | Oct 29 |
| 2013 | no data | Oct 19 | no data | Oct 23 |
| 1972 | Apr 24 | Sep 30 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 |
| 1971 | May 3 | Oct 10 | Apr 14 | Oct 10 |
| 1970 | May 2 | Oct 9 | May 2 | Oct 10 |
| 1969 | May 11 | no data | Apr 6 | no data |
| 1968 | May 21 | Oct 4 | Apr 24 | Oct 4 |
| 1967 | May 21 | Sep 28 | May 2 | Oct 19 |
| 1966 | May 13 | Oct 1 | May 2 | Oct 10 |
| 1965 | Apr 28 | Sep 24 | Apr 28 | Oct 12 |
| 1964 | Apr 9 | Sep 28 | Apr 9 | Oct 9 |
| 1963 | May 22 | Oct 29 | Apr 23 | Oct 29 |
| 1962 | Apr 18 | Oct 24 | Apr 15 | Oct 24 |
| 1961 | May 2 | Oct 20 | May 2 | Oct 20 |
| 1960 | May 12 | Oct 20 | Mar 26 | Oct 20 |
| 1959 | Apr 22 | Oct 9 | Apr 22 | Oct 18 |
| 1958 | May 1 | Oct 1 | Apr 29 | Oct 1 |
| 1957 | May 5 | Oct 18 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 |
| 1956 | Apr 24 | Sep 30 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 |
| 1955 | Apr 9 | no data | Apr 8 | no data |
| 1954 | no data | Sep 22 | no data | Oct 16 |
"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.