Last Frost Day

Frost history / Humboldt, KS

Humboldt, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00143867, 1997 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 940 ft, 37.812, -95.446. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 12Oct 25
EarliestMar 11 (2012)Sep 28 (2003)
LatestMay 3 (2005)Nov 13 (2021)
Trend1.9 days later per decade3.4 days later per decade
Years with data2828

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 31 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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 152000201020201997: Apr 161998: Mar 221999: Mar 272000: Apr 92001: Apr 182002: Apr 42004: May 32005: May 32006: Apr 102007: Apr 162008: Apr 152009: Apr 112010: Mar 302011: Apr 52012: Mar 112013: Apr 252014: Apr 162015: Apr 52016: Apr 32017: Apr 72018: Apr 192019: Apr 122020: Apr 182021: Apr 232022: Apr 202023: Apr 232024: Apr 52025: Apr 8

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 262000201020201997: Oct 271998: Nov 111999: Oct 182000: Oct 72001: Oct 162003: Sep 282004: Oct 32005: Oct 252006: Oct 132007: Nov 12008: Oct 272009: Nov 52010: Oct 292011: Oct 202012: Oct 72013: Oct 202014: Nov 12015: Oct 302016: Nov 132017: Oct 282018: Oct 162019: Oct 122020: Oct 262021: Nov 132022: Oct 192023: Oct 302024: Oct 162025: Nov 2

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
2025Apr 8Nov 2Mar 21Nov 2
2024Apr 5Oct 16Mar 29Oct 16
2023Apr 23Oct 30Apr 23Oct 30
2022Apr 20Oct 19Apr 9Oct 19
2021Apr 23Nov 13Apr 1Nov 13
2020Apr 18Oct 26Mar 21Oct 27
2019Apr 12Oct 12Apr 1Oct 31
2018Apr 19Oct 16Apr 15Nov 9
2017Apr 7Oct 28Mar 17Oct 28
2016Apr 3Nov 13Apr 2Nov 19
2015Apr 5Oct 30Mar 8Nov 13
2014Apr 16Nov 1Apr 16Nov 1
2013Apr 25Oct 20Mar 27Nov 12
2012Mar 11Oct 7Mar 10Oct 27
2011Apr 5Oct 20Mar 15Oct 20
2010Mar 30Oct 29Mar 23Nov 6
2009Apr 11Nov 5Apr 8Nov 26
2008Apr 15Oct 27Apr 15Oct 28
2007Apr 16Nov 1Apr 9Nov 7
2006Apr 10Oct 13Mar 26Oct 23
2005May 3Oct 25Apr 24Nov 16
2004May 3Oct 3May 3Oct 3
2003no dataSep 28no dataNov 7
2002Apr 4no dataApr 4no data
2001Apr 18Oct 16Mar 28Oct 27
2000Apr 9Oct 7Mar 13Oct 8
1999Mar 27Oct 18Mar 27Oct 24
1998Mar 22Nov 11Mar 22Dec 8
1997Apr 16Oct 27Apr 13Oct 27

"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.