Howard, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00143822, 1951 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,010 ft, 37.466, -96.271. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 19
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 4 (2005)	Nov 16 (1994)
Trend	1.4 days earlier per decade	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	71	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.

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