Holton, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00143759, 1952 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,050 ft, 39.458, -95.755. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 23	Oct 12
Earliest	Apr 6 (1984)	Sep 19 (1991)
Latest	May 17 (2014)	Nov 11 (1998)
Trend	0.5 days later per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	61	62

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

"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.