Last Frost Day

Frost history / Hiawatha 1 S, KS

Hiawatha 1 S, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00143634, 2007 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,061 ft, 39.836, -95.532. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 14Oct 23
EarliestMar 10 (2012)Oct 10 (2009)
LatestMay 5 (2021)Oct 30 (2014)
Trend15.0 days later per decade2.0 days later per decade
Years with data1010

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 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.

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Last spring frost (32°F)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202008: Apr 262009: Apr 142010: Mar 302011: Apr 52012: Mar 102015: Apr 232016: Apr 132017: Apr 82021: May 52022: Apr 27

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202007: Oct 232008: Oct 172009: Oct 102010: Oct 292011: Oct 192013: Oct 232014: Oct 302015: Oct 252016: Oct 132021: Oct 22

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2022Apr 27no dataApr 27no data
2021May 5Oct 22Apr 23Nov 3
2017Apr 8no dataMar 15no data
2016Apr 13Oct 13Apr 13Nov 12
2015Apr 23Oct 25Apr 4Nov 8
2014no dataOct 30no dataNov 1
2013no dataOct 23no dataOct 23
2012Mar 10no dataMar 10no data
2011Apr 5Oct 19Mar 30Oct 20
2010Mar 30Oct 29Mar 23Nov 5
2009Apr 14Oct 10Apr 8Nov 3
2008Apr 26Oct 17Apr 15Oct 28
2007no dataOct 23no dataNov 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.