Hugoton, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00143855, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,110 ft, 37.164, -101.340. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 16	Oct 19
Earliest	Mar 26 (2001)	Sep 21 (1983)
Latest	May 15 (1983)	Nov 14 (1965)
Trend	0.8 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	72	73

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.

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

"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.