Newton, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00145744, 1951 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,441 ft, 38.023, -97.355. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 15	Oct 22
Earliest	Mar 11 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 13 (1966)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	0.7 days earlier per decade	0.5 days later per decade
Years with data	69	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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