Larned #2, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00144531, 2009 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,030 ft, 38.192, -99.097. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 17	Oct 22
Earliest	Apr 7 (2024)	Oct 7 (2012)
Latest	May 5 (2013)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	3.7 days earlier per decade	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	13	16

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 7 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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 15	Oct 30	Apr 7	Nov 10
2024	Apr 7	no data	Mar 27	no data
2023	Apr 23	Oct 7	Apr 23	Oct 28
2022	no data	Oct 17	no data	Nov 11
2021	no data	Nov 13	no data	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 24
2019	Apr 14	Oct 11	Apr 13	Oct 11
2018	Apr 20	Oct 15	Apr 17	Oct 15
2017	Apr 27	Oct 27	Mar 16	Oct 27
2016	Apr 13	Nov 12	Apr 2	Nov 12
2015	Apr 11	Nov 13	Mar 27	Nov 21
2014	May 2	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 11
2013	May 5	Oct 19	Apr 25	Nov 7
2012	no data	Oct 7	no data	Oct 27
2011	Apr 17	Oct 20	Mar 25	Nov 3
2010	Apr 9	Nov 5	Mar 23	Nov 6
2009	no data	Oct 10	no data	Oct 11

"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.