Ness City, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00145692, 1951 to 2020, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,269 ft, 38.454, -99.895. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 26	Oct 13
Earliest	Apr 4 (1976)	Sep 13 (2014)
Latest	May 16 (2014)	Nov 14 (1965)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.2 days earlier per decade
Years with data	63	62

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 16 and the median first fall date is Oct 24.

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

"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.