Lincoln 1 Se, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00144712, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,401 ft, 39.029, -98.130. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 23	Oct 11
Earliest	Apr 5 (1960)	Sep 13 (2014)
Latest	May 20 (1981)	Oct 31 (1971)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	0.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data	75	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 23.

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

"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.