Lakin, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00144464, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,998 ft, 37.941, -101.249. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 21	Oct 18
Earliest	Mar 21 (2012)	Sep 3 (1974)
Latest	May 15 (1983)	Nov 9 (2016)
Trend	1.4 days earlier per decade	1.6 days later per decade
Years with data	69	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 and the median first fall date is Oct 26.

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

"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.