Herington, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00143594, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,338 ft, 38.666, -96.949. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 20	Oct 15
Earliest	Mar 28 (2006)	Sep 21 (1982)
Latest	May 17 (2014)	Nov 11 (1998)
Trend	0.6 days later per decade	1.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data	73	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Oct 27.

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 15	Oct 30	Apr 15	Oct 30
2024	Apr 12	Oct 14	Mar 28	Oct 16
2023	May 3	Oct 7	Apr 23	Oct 28
2022	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 26	Oct 18
2021	no data	Oct 30	no data	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 2	Apr 15	Oct 26
2019	Apr 14	Oct 11	Apr 13	Oct 12
2018	Apr 26	Oct 15	Apr 19	Oct 15
2017	Apr 27	Oct 11	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 12	Nov 9	Apr 8	Nov 9
2015	Apr 10	Oct 16	Apr 4	Oct 30
2014	May 17	Oct 15	Apr 16	Nov 1
2013	May 3	Oct 19	Apr 24	Oct 19
2012	Apr 23	Oct 7	Mar 9	Oct 7
2011	May 16	Oct 20	Mar 30	Oct 20
2010	Apr 8	Oct 3	Apr 8	Nov 5
2009	Apr 15	Oct 10	Apr 11	Nov 3
2008	May 4	Oct 16	Apr 15	Oct 28
2007	Apr 15	Oct 23	Apr 15	Nov 1
2006	Mar 28	Oct 13	Mar 25	Oct 13
2005	May 3	Oct 22	May 3	Oct 22
2004	May 3	Oct 2	Apr 12	Nov 5
2003	Apr 10	Oct 17	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	Apr 25	Oct 13	Apr 4	Nov 4
2001	Apr 18	Oct 16	Apr 18	Oct 26
2000	Apr 21	Oct 7	Apr 8	Oct 7
1999	Apr 4	Oct 4	Mar 26	Oct 4
1998	Apr 17	Nov 11	Apr 17	Nov 11
1997	Apr 17	Oct 27	Apr 14	Oct 27
1996	Apr 30	Oct 22	Apr 23	Oct 31
1995	May 2	Sep 22	Mar 31	Sep 22
1994	May 1	Oct 9	May 1	Oct 25
1993	no data	Oct 10	no data	Oct 21
1992	May 6	Oct 7	Apr 3	Nov 5
1991	Mar 30	no data	Mar 30	no data
1990	Apr 12	Oct 10	Apr 12	Oct 10
1989	Apr 19	Sep 24	Apr 11	Oct 18
1988	Apr 27	Oct 19	Apr 11	Oct 28
1987	Apr 5	Oct 3	Apr 5	Oct 21
1986	Apr 22	Nov 5	Apr 22	Nov 9
1985	Apr 8	Oct 1	Apr 8	Oct 1
1984	May 8	Sep 30	Apr 5	Nov 2
1983	May 8	Sep 23	Apr 15	Nov 11
1982	Apr 22	Sep 21	Apr 22	Oct 20
1981	May 11	Oct 19	Mar 23	Oct 23
1980	May 8	Oct 3	Apr 15	Oct 29
1979	May 11	Oct 10	Apr 9	Nov 2
1978	Apr 21	Oct 6	Apr 21	Oct 26
1977	Apr 25	Oct 11	Mar 31	Oct 12
1976	May 3	Oct 8	May 3	Oct 8
1975	Apr 12	Sep 22	Apr 12	Oct 18
1974	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 5	Oct 15
1973	May 15	Oct 29	Apr 10	Oct 29
1972	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	Apr 7	Oct 10	Apr 7	Nov 6
1970	Apr 21	Oct 9	Apr 5	Oct 16
1969	Mar 30	Oct 14	Mar 30	Oct 14
1968	Apr 5	Nov 8	Apr 5	Nov 8
1967	May 3	Oct 28	Apr 24	Nov 4
1966	Apr 28	Oct 16	Apr 21	Oct 16
1965	Apr 28	Oct 24	Mar 30	Nov 9
1964	Apr 9	Oct 9	Apr 8	Oct 9
1963	Apr 4	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 13
1962	Apr 15	Oct 25	Apr 13	Nov 5
1961	Apr 18	Nov 2	Apr 16	Nov 3
1960	Apr 9	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
1959	Apr 13	Oct 27	Apr 13	Oct 27
1958	Apr 29	Oct 28	Mar 21	Nov 18
1957	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 26
1956	Apr 24	Nov 8	Apr 24	Nov 8
1955	Apr 7	Oct 24	Apr 7	Nov 3
1954	May 4	Oct 30	Apr 3	Oct 30
1953	Apr 20	Oct 27	Apr 20	Nov 6
1952	Apr 15	Oct 6	Apr 11	Oct 6
1951	Apr 17	Oct 27	Apr 16	Oct 31

"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.