Frost history / Osage City, KS
Osage City, KS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00146076, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,094 ft, 38.636, -95.803. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 14 | Oct 19 |
| Earliest | Mar 11 (2012) | Sep 28 (1967) |
| Latest | May 16 (2014) | Nov 13 (2021) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 1.5 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 40 | 38 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 30.
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.
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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 9 | Nov 2 | Apr 9 | Nov 2 |
| 2024 | Apr 6 | Oct 16 | Mar 28 | Oct 16 |
| 2023 | Apr 24 | Oct 17 | Apr 6 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 26 | Oct 17 | Apr 9 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | Nov 13 | Apr 22 | Nov 13 |
| 2020 | Apr 18 | Oct 26 | Apr 13 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 14 | Oct 12 | Apr 14 | Oct 29 |
| 2018 | Apr 19 | Oct 16 | Apr 16 | Nov 9 |
| 2017 | Apr 11 | Oct 28 | Mar 16 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Nov 9 | Apr 13 | Nov 12 |
| 2015 | Apr 5 | Oct 25 | Apr 4 | Oct 30 |
| 2014 | May 16 | Oct 30 | Apr 19 | Nov 1 |
| 2013 | May 3 | Oct 19 | Apr 24 | Oct 25 |
| 2012 | Mar 11 | Oct 7 | Mar 9 | Oct 7 |
| 2011 | Apr 5 | Oct 20 | Mar 28 | Oct 20 |
| 2010 | no data | Oct 29 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1975 | Apr 12 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 1974 | Apr 8 | Nov 6 | Mar 25 | Nov 6 |
| 1973 | Apr 11 | Oct 29 | Apr 11 | Nov 6 |
| 1972 | Apr 9 | Oct 19 | Apr 4 | Oct 19 |
| 1971 | Apr 7 | Oct 10 | Apr 6 | Nov 6 |
| 1970 | Apr 4 | Oct 16 | Apr 3 | Nov 5 |
| 1969 | Apr 3 | Oct 14 | Mar 30 | Oct 17 |
| 1968 | Apr 24 | Oct 4 | Apr 9 | Nov 8 |
| 1967 | Apr 27 | Sep 28 | Apr 27 | Oct 19 |
| 1966 | Apr 21 | Oct 1 | Apr 21 | Oct 16 |
| 1965 | Apr 28 | Oct 12 | Mar 31 | Nov 9 |
| 1964 | Apr 9 | Oct 9 | Mar 31 | Oct 20 |
| 1963 | May 1 | Oct 29 | Mar 22 | Nov 2 |
| 1962 | Apr 15 | Oct 25 | Apr 13 | Oct 25 |
| 1961 | May 2 | Oct 20 | Apr 16 | Oct 26 |
| 1960 | Apr 10 | Oct 20 | Mar 26 | Oct 20 |
| 1959 | Apr 13 | Oct 18 | Mar 22 | Nov 5 |
| 1958 | Mar 31 | Oct 1 | Mar 26 | Nov 18 |
| 1957 | Apr 13 | no data | Apr 13 | no data |
| 1956 | Apr 24 | Oct 26 | Apr 24 | Nov 8 |
| 1955 | Apr 8 | Oct 15 | Mar 29 | Oct 24 |
| 1954 | May 4 | no data | Apr 3 | no data |
| 1953 | Apr 27 | Oct 7 | Apr 20 | Nov 8 |
| 1952 | Apr 15 | Oct 6 | Apr 10 | Oct 6 |
| 1951 | Apr 23 | Oct 24 | Apr 23 | 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.