Independence, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00143954, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 805 ft, 37.236, -95.700. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 27
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 30 (1984)
Latest	May 4 (1954)	Nov 14 (2015)
Trend	1.1 days earlier per decade	0.7 days later per decade
Years with data	74	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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 8	Nov 2	Mar 10	Nov 10
2024	Mar 29	Oct 16	Mar 28	Nov 26
2023	Apr 24	Oct 30	Mar 29	Oct 31
2022	Apr 15	Oct 18	Apr 15	Oct 19
2021	Apr 22	Nov 13	Mar 3	Nov 13
2020	Apr 19	Oct 27	Mar 22	Nov 13
2019	Apr 2	Oct 12	Apr 1	Oct 31
2018	Apr 17	Nov 9	Apr 17	Nov 10
2017	Mar 16	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 3	Nov 13	Feb 27	Nov 19
2015	Apr 5	Nov 14	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Mar 26	Nov 1
2013	Apr 25	Oct 19	Mar 27	Nov 12
2012	Mar 10	Oct 27	Feb 26	Oct 28
2011	Mar 31	Oct 20	Mar 11	Oct 21
2010	Mar 23	Oct 30	Mar 21	Nov 6
2009	Apr 8	Oct 18	Apr 8	Nov 30
2008	Apr 15	Oct 27	Mar 25	Oct 28
2007	Apr 14	Nov 6	Apr 8	Nov 7
2006	Mar 26	Oct 22	Mar 26	Nov 2
2005	Mar 20	Oct 25	Mar 15	Nov 16
2004	Mar 23	Nov 13	Feb 28	Nov 25
2003	Apr 11	Nov 7	Apr 10	Nov 24
2002	Apr 5	Oct 14	Apr 4	Nov 22
2001	Apr 2	Oct 27	Mar 27	Nov 20
2000	Apr 9	Oct 8	Mar 13	Oct 8
1999	Mar 26	Oct 24	Mar 16	Nov 25
1998	Mar 22	Nov 11	Mar 14	Dec 8
1997	Apr 15	Oct 26	Apr 14	Nov 11
1996	Apr 7	Nov 2	Apr 7	Nov 17
1995	Mar 30	Nov 3	Mar 9	Nov 3
1994	Apr 7	Oct 26	Feb 27	Nov 23
1993	Apr 2	Oct 29	Apr 2	Oct 30
1992	no data	Nov 4	no data	Nov 6
1991	Mar 30	Oct 30	Mar 30	Nov 1
1990	Apr 7	Oct 22	Mar 25	Nov 28
1989	Apr 11	Oct 19	Mar 22	Oct 20
1988	Mar 30	Nov 8	Mar 18	Nov 21
1987	Apr 5	Oct 12	Apr 4	Nov 11
1986	Apr 22	no data	Mar 21	no data
1985	Apr 1	Oct 1	Mar 6	Nov 19
1984	Apr 18	Sep 30	Mar 20	Nov 2
1983	Apr 20	Nov 11	Apr 15	Nov 11
1982	Apr 23	Oct 20	Apr 11	Oct 23
1981	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 20	Nov 20
1980	Apr 15	Oct 26	Mar 18	Oct 29
1979	Apr 28	Oct 10	Apr 6	Nov 3
1978	Apr 21	Oct 24	Mar 17	Nov 7
1977	Apr 5	Oct 12	Mar 22	Nov 21
1976	May 3	Oct 17	Mar 16	Oct 20
1975	Apr 4	Oct 25	Apr 3	Nov 13
1974	Mar 25	Nov 6	Mar 25	Nov 14
1973	Apr 11	Nov 6	Feb 23	Dec 5
1972	Apr 4	Oct 19	Apr 4	Nov 22
1971	Apr 7	Nov 6	Mar 26	Nov 7
1970	Apr 14	Nov 5	Apr 5	Nov 5
1969	Mar 30	Oct 27	Mar 29	Oct 28
1968	Apr 5	Nov 4	Mar 23	Nov 11
1967	Mar 21	Nov 3	Mar 18	Nov 4
1966	Apr 21	Oct 16	Apr 21	Nov 1
1965	Mar 31	Oct 12	Mar 27	Nov 27
1964	Apr 9	Oct 9	Apr 9	Oct 20
1963	Mar 22	Nov 2	Mar 8	Nov 13
1962	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 2	Nov 5
1961	Apr 18	Oct 26	Mar 1	Nov 3
1960	Apr 3	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
1959	Apr 14	Nov 5	Mar 22	Nov 5
1958	Mar 31	Nov 3	Mar 18	Nov 18
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 25
1956	Apr 23	Nov 8	Apr 17	Nov 8
1955	Apr 8	Oct 18	Apr 8	Oct 24
1954	May 4	Oct 16	Apr 1	Oct 30
1953	Apr 20	Oct 29	Apr 20	Nov 9
1952	Apr 15	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 7
1951	Apr 23	Nov 1	Mar 30	Nov 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.