Last Frost Day

Frost history / Pittsburg, KS

Pittsburg, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00146414, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 908 ft, 37.390, -94.703. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 29
EarliestMar 10 (2012)Oct 7 (1952)
LatestMay 4 (1954)Nov 22 (2015)
Trend2.0 days earlier per decade0.5 days later per decade
Years with data2121

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 20 and the median first fall date is Nov 10.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1519601970198019902000201020201951: Apr 171952: Apr 151953: Apr 201954: May 41955: Apr 81956: Apr 242011: Apr 12012: Mar 102013: Apr 252014: Apr 162015: Apr 52016: Apr 32017: Mar 162018: Apr 172019: Apr 22020: Apr 192021: Apr 232022: Apr 102023: Mar 302024: Mar 292025: Apr 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 1119601970198019902000201020201951: Oct 311952: Oct 71953: Oct 291954: Oct 301955: Nov 31956: Oct 262011: Oct 202012: Oct 272013: Oct 252014: Nov 12015: Nov 222016: Nov 102017: Oct 282018: Nov 92019: Oct 122020: Oct 272021: Nov 132022: Oct 182023: Oct 302024: Oct 172025: Nov 2

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 9Nov 2Mar 7Nov 10
2024Mar 29Oct 17Mar 28Nov 26
2023Mar 30Oct 30Mar 20Oct 31
2022Apr 10Oct 18Mar 13Oct 19
2021Apr 23Nov 13Mar 3Nov 13
2020Apr 19Oct 27Feb 28Nov 14
2019Apr 2Oct 12Mar 17Oct 31
2018Apr 17Nov 9Apr 8Nov 10
2017Mar 16Oct 28Mar 16Oct 28
2016Apr 3Nov 10Feb 27Nov 20
2015Apr 5Nov 22Mar 7Nov 22
2014Apr 16Nov 1Mar 25Nov 12
2013Apr 25Oct 25Mar 27Nov 12
2012Mar 10Oct 27Feb 26Nov 12
2011Apr 1Oct 20Mar 11Nov 17
1956Apr 24Oct 26Apr 8Nov 9
1955Apr 8Nov 3Mar 28Nov 3
1954May 4Oct 30Apr 1Nov 2
1953Apr 20Oct 29Apr 20Nov 6
1952Apr 15Oct 7Apr 10Oct 7
1951Apr 17Oct 31Mar 24Nov 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.