Fredonia, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00142894, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 893 ft, 37.534, -95.827. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 22
Earliest	Mar 16 (2017)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 9 (1980)	Nov 20 (2016)
Trend	1.2 days earlier per decade	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	54	58

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