Kiowa, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00144341, 2011 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,325 ft, 37.017, -98.490. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 12	Oct 28
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Oct 7 (2012)
Latest	May 4 (2013)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	7.5 days later per decade	2.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data	15	15

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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)

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	Oct 29	Mar 20	Nov 10
2024	Mar 29	Oct 16	Mar 28	Nov 23
2023	Apr 23	Oct 29	Mar 28	Oct 30
2022	Apr 15	Oct 19	Mar 14	Nov 11
2021	Apr 22	Nov 13	Mar 3	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 24	Apr 5	Oct 26
2019	Apr 12	Oct 12	Apr 1	Oct 29
2018	Apr 20	Oct 15	Apr 17	Nov 10
2017	Mar 17	Oct 27	Mar 16	Oct 27
2016	Apr 3	Nov 12	Mar 26	Nov 19
2015	Apr 5	Nov 8	Mar 8	Nov 22
2014	Apr 18	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 11
2013	May 4	Nov 7	Apr 25	Nov 12
2012	Mar 11	Oct 7	Mar 4	Oct 27
2011	Mar 30	Oct 28	Mar 11	Nov 4

"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.