Girard, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00143074, 1957 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 990 ft, 37.508, -94.839. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 5	Nov 2
Earliest	Mar 6 (2012)	Oct 7 (2000)
Latest	May 3 (2013)	Nov 22 (2024)
Trend	0.9 days earlier per decade	0.7 days later per decade
Years with data	61	60

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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	Mar 21	Nov 2	Mar 16	Nov 10
2024	Mar 28	Nov 22	Mar 28	Nov 26
2023	Mar 28	Oct 30	Mar 20	Oct 30
2022	Apr 2	Oct 18	Mar 13	Oct 18
2021	Apr 22	Nov 13	Mar 2	Nov 13
2020	Apr 19	Oct 27	Apr 13	Nov 13
2019	Apr 12	Oct 31	Apr 1	Oct 31
2018	Apr 17	Oct 16	Apr 16	Nov 10
2017	Mar 16	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 2	Nov 19	Mar 25	Nov 19
2015	Apr 5	Nov 22	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 1
2013	May 3	Nov 12	Mar 27	Nov 12
2012	Mar 6	Oct 27	Feb 26	Oct 28
2011	Mar 30	Oct 20	Mar 10	Nov 17
2010	Mar 22	Nov 4	Mar 20	Nov 24
2009	Apr 7	Nov 18	Apr 7	Nov 29
2008	Apr 15	Oct 26	Mar 23	Oct 27
2007	Apr 15	Nov 6	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Mar 27	Oct 21	Mar 24	Nov 1
2005	Mar 19	Nov 15	Mar 13	Nov 15
2004	Mar 30	Nov 12	Feb 26	Nov 24
2003	Apr 9	Nov 6	Apr 9	Nov 23
2002	Apr 4	Oct 31	Apr 3	Nov 11
2000	Apr 8	Oct 7	Mar 12	Oct 7
1999	Mar 26	Oct 23	Mar 14	Dec 5
1998	Mar 21	Nov 19	Mar 21	Dec 7
1997	Apr 13	Oct 26	Apr 13	Nov 10
1996	no data	Oct 22	no data	Nov 10
1995	Mar 30	no data	Mar 29	no data
1994	Apr 7	Nov 15	Apr 6	Nov 22
1993	Apr 2	Oct 27	Mar 17	Oct 29
1992	Apr 2	Nov 3	Apr 1	Nov 6
1991	Mar 30	Oct 29	Mar 30	Nov 1
1990	Apr 13	Nov 5	Mar 26	Nov 28
1989	Apr 12	Oct 20	Mar 22	Oct 20
1988	Mar 30	Nov 6	Mar 20	Nov 21
1987	Apr 5	Oct 21	Apr 3	Nov 10
1986	Apr 22	Nov 10	Mar 20	Nov 11
1985	Apr 2	Nov 7	Mar 6	Nov 20
1984	Apr 1	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 2
1983	Apr 19	Nov 11	Apr 15	Nov 11
1982	no data	Oct 21	no data	Nov 4
1981	Mar 21	no data	Feb 13	no data
1980	Mar 21	no data	Mar 11	no data
1979	Mar 27	Nov 7	Mar 15	Nov 13
1978	Apr 21	Oct 14	Mar 25	Nov 21
1977	Apr 5	Nov 10	Mar 22	Nov 21
1976	May 3	Oct 17	Mar 16	Oct 17
1975	Apr 4	Nov 10	Apr 3	Nov 13
1974	Apr 5	Nov 6	Mar 25	Nov 14
1973	Apr 11	Nov 5	Apr 10	Nov 10
1972	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	Apr 3	Nov 7	Mar 24	Nov 7
1970	Apr 5	Nov 2	Apr 2	Nov 15
1969	no data	Oct 28	no data	Nov 13
1968	Apr 5	no data	Apr 5	no data
1967	Apr 24	Nov 2	Mar 18	Nov 4
1966	Apr 21	Nov 1	Mar 28	Nov 1
1965	Mar 27	Nov 17	Mar 27	Nov 17
1964	Apr 9	Oct 20	Mar 31	Nov 19
1963	Mar 22	Nov 1	Mar 14	Nov 13
1962	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 2	Nov 5
1961	Apr 17	no data	Apr 6	no data
1957	no data	Oct 25	no data	Oct 26

"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.