Liberal, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00144695, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,834 ft, 37.031, -100.907. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 15	Oct 24
Earliest	Mar 26 (1963)	Sep 24 (2000)
Latest	May 14 (1953)	Nov 14 (1965)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	0.7 days earlier per decade
Years with data	74	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.

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