Minneapolis, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00145363, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,306 ft, 39.125, -97.705. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 16	Oct 20
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 14 (1953)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	0.9 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	72	70

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.

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

"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.