Frost history / Richfield, KS
Richfield, KS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00146808, 1981 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 3,408 ft, 37.263, -101.789. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 26 | Oct 13 |
| Earliest | Apr 5 (2002) | Sep 21 (1983) |
| Latest | May 16 (1983) | Nov 5 (1994) |
| Trend | 1.3 days earlier per decade | 3.1 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 31 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 15 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.
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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 21 | no data | Apr 7 | no data |
| 2024 | no data | Oct 26 | no data | Oct 31 |
| 2021 | Apr 22 | no data | Apr 21 | no data |
| 2020 | no data | Oct 23 | no data | Oct 24 |
| 2019 | Apr 15 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 2018 | Apr 27 | no data | Apr 16 | no data |
| 2017 | May 2 | Oct 16 | Mar 16 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | no data | Oct 8 | no data | Nov 9 |
| 2014 | no data | Nov 1 | no data | Nov 11 |
| 2013 | May 5 | no data | May 4 | no data |
| 2011 | Apr 18 | no data | Apr 18 | no data |
| 2010 | May 13 | Oct 27 | Apr 12 | Oct 28 |
| 2009 | no data | Oct 10 | no data | Oct 10 |
| 2007 | Apr 26 | no data | Apr 15 | no data |
| 2006 | Apr 26 | Oct 19 | Apr 26 | Oct 19 |
| 2005 | Apr 30 | Oct 7 | Apr 13 | Oct 24 |
| 2004 | May 14 | Oct 14 | Apr 14 | Oct 25 |
| 2003 | Apr 17 | Oct 26 | Apr 10 | Oct 26 |
| 2002 | Apr 5 | Oct 13 | Apr 5 | Oct 17 |
| 2001 | Apr 12 | Oct 6 | Mar 27 | Oct 16 |
| 2000 | May 13 | Sep 25 | Apr 16 | Nov 7 |
| 1999 | Apr 18 | Sep 29 | Apr 18 | Oct 4 |
| 1998 | Apr 22 | Oct 18 | Apr 21 | Nov 5 |
| 1997 | May 4 | Oct 9 | May 2 | Oct 26 |
| 1996 | no data | Oct 17 | no data | Oct 17 |
| 1995 | Apr 27 | no data | Apr 19 | no data |
| 1994 | no data | Nov 5 | no data | Nov 5 |
| 1992 | Apr 21 | Oct 8 | Apr 4 | Oct 16 |
| 1991 | May 1 | Oct 5 | Apr 15 | Oct 5 |
| 1990 | May 10 | Oct 9 | Apr 7 | Oct 18 |
| 1989 | May 2 | Oct 17 | Apr 11 | Oct 18 |
| 1988 | Apr 23 | Oct 26 | Apr 12 | Oct 29 |
| 1987 | Apr 22 | Oct 19 | Apr 22 | Nov 9 |
| 1986 | Apr 15 | Oct 12 | Apr 15 | Oct 13 |
| 1985 | Apr 14 | Sep 29 | Apr 7 | Sep 30 |
| 1984 | May 8 | Sep 29 | Apr 30 | Sep 29 |
| 1983 | May 16 | Sep 21 | May 15 | Sep 21 |
| 1982 | Apr 23 | Oct 11 | Apr 21 | Oct 29 |
| 1981 | May 10 | Oct 23 | Apr 1 | Oct 26 |
"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.