Smith Ctr, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00147542, 1952 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,820 ft, 39.777, -98.778. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 22	Oct 13
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 21 (1983)
Latest	May 20 (1968)	Nov 4 (1998)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	72	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 10 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.

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
2025	Apr 19	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 2
2023	Apr 24	Oct 16	Apr 24	Oct 16
2022	Apr 27	Oct 17	Apr 17	Oct 18
2021	Apr 22	Oct 16	Apr 22	Nov 13
2020	May 11	Oct 24	Apr 18	Oct 26
2019	Apr 15	Oct 11	Apr 15	Oct 11
2018	Apr 20	Oct 11	Apr 20	Oct 15
2017	May 1	Oct 23	Apr 28	Oct 27
2016	Apr 12	Oct 7	Apr 3	Nov 12
2015	Apr 11	Oct 29	Mar 27	Oct 29
2014	May 3	Oct 29	Apr 16	Nov 1
2013	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 25	Nov 12
2012	Mar 10	Oct 7	Mar 10	Oct 7
2011	Apr 17	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
2010	Apr 8	Nov 2	Mar 26	Nov 5
2009	Apr 29	Oct 9	Apr 8	Oct 10
2008	Apr 27	Oct 26	Apr 15	Oct 27
2007	Apr 15	Oct 23	Apr 12	Nov 1
2006	Apr 9	Oct 13	Mar 28	Oct 19
2005	May 3	Oct 23	May 3	Oct 23
2004	May 3	Oct 14	Apr 13	Nov 3
2003	Apr 9	Oct 26	Apr 9	Oct 26
2002	Apr 25	Oct 13	Apr 4	Oct 23
2001	Apr 17	Oct 6	Apr 17	Oct 16
2000	Apr 21	Sep 25	Apr 8	Oct 7
1999	Apr 18	Oct 4	Mar 26	Nov 2
1998	Mar 31	Nov 4	Mar 21	Nov 10
1997	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 14	Oct 26
1996	Apr 14	Oct 18	Apr 13	Nov 2
1995	Apr 27	Sep 22	Apr 27	Sep 22
1994	Apr 30	Oct 25	Apr 29	Oct 25
1993	Apr 16	Oct 10	Apr 2	Oct 27
1992	Apr 26	Oct 9	Apr 1	Nov 4
1991	Apr 30	Oct 5	Mar 30	Oct 6
1990	Apr 13	Oct 10	Apr 12	Oct 10
1989	May 6	Oct 18	Apr 12	Oct 19
1988	Apr 27	Oct 28	Mar 19	Oct 28
1987	Apr 10	Oct 10	Apr 4	Oct 11
1986	Apr 22	Oct 12	Apr 16	Oct 13
1985	Apr 8	Sep 29	Apr 8	Oct 1
1984	Apr 30	Sep 29	Apr 5	Sep 29
1983	May 15	Sep 21	Apr 16	Sep 21
1982	Apr 22	Oct 11	Apr 22	Oct 20
1981	May 10	Oct 19	Mar 23	Oct 22
1980	Apr 15	Oct 19	Apr 14	Oct 25
1979	May 11	Oct 10	Apr 9	Nov 2
1978	Apr 21	Oct 6	Apr 21	Oct 26
1977	Apr 5	Oct 11	Apr 5	Oct 12
1976	May 3	Sep 28	Apr 1	Oct 16
1975	Apr 12	Oct 25	Apr 12	Oct 25
1974	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 5	Oct 15
1973	May 3	Oct 28	Apr 10	Oct 29
1972	Apr 8	Oct 7	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	Apr 6	Oct 10	Apr 6	Oct 31
1970	May 2	Oct 12	Apr 4	Oct 31
1969	Mar 31	Oct 14	Mar 30	Oct 14
1968	May 20	Oct 24	Apr 5	Nov 7
1967	May 3	Oct 10	May 2	Oct 25
1966	May 13	Oct 1	Apr 21	Oct 15
1965	Apr 28	Sep 24	Mar 30	Nov 9
1964	Apr 14	Oct 9	Apr 8	Nov 19
1963	Apr 4	Nov 1	Apr 4	Nov 1
1962	Apr 15	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 25
1961	May 2	Oct 19	Apr 17	Oct 20
1960	May 12	Oct 19	Apr 3	Oct 19
1959	Apr 22	Oct 9	Apr 22	Oct 17
1958	Apr 24	Oct 1	Apr 7	Oct 1
1957	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 25
1956	Apr 29	Oct 7	Apr 20	Oct 26
1955	Apr 14	Oct 17	Apr 14	Oct 24
1954	no data	Oct 16	no data	Oct 16
1953	May 14	no data	Apr 26	no data
1952	May 11	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 6

"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.