Sterling, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00147796, 1953 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,636 ft, 38.214, -98.208. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 24
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 21 (1995)
Latest	May 14 (1953)	Nov 13 (2021)
Trend	1.0 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	71	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 5 and the median first fall date is Nov 3.

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 8	Oct 30	Apr 7	Nov 10
2024	Apr 5	Oct 16	Mar 28	Oct 16
2023	Apr 24	Oct 7	Apr 7	Oct 30
2022	Apr 15	Oct 17	Apr 9	Oct 19
2021	Apr 22	Nov 13	Apr 22	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 24	Apr 16	Oct 26
2019	Apr 15	Oct 11	Apr 13	Oct 25
2018	Apr 20	Oct 15	Apr 17	Oct 15
2017	Apr 27	Oct 27	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 13	Nov 12	Apr 2	Nov 12
2015	Apr 11	Oct 29	Mar 27	Nov 22
2014	Apr 16	Nov 1	Apr 16	Nov 11
2013	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 25	Nov 12
2012	Mar 10	Oct 7	Mar 10	Oct 7
2011	Mar 30	Oct 20	Mar 25	Oct 20
2010	Apr 8	Nov 5	Mar 23	Nov 5
2009	Apr 8	Oct 10	Apr 8	Nov 18
2008	Apr 15	Oct 27	Apr 15	Oct 28
2007	Apr 16	Oct 26	Apr 9	Nov 3
2006	Mar 29	Oct 19	Mar 29	Oct 22
2005	May 2	Oct 24	Mar 27	Oct 24
2004	Apr 15	Nov 3	Apr 11	Nov 13
2003	Apr 9	Oct 25	Apr 9	Oct 25
2002	Apr 3	Oct 23	Apr 3	Oct 31
2001	Apr 18	Oct 15	Mar 26	Nov 8
1999	Apr 16	Oct 3	Mar 14	Nov 23
1998	Apr 17	Nov 10	Mar 20	Dec 6
1997	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 12	Oct 26
1996	Apr 12	Oct 30	Apr 5	Nov 1
1995	Apr 27	Sep 21	Apr 12	Nov 1
1994	Apr 29	Oct 24	Apr 6	Nov 9
1993	Apr 16	Oct 26	Apr 2	Oct 26
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	Apr 11	Oct 18	Apr 10	Oct 19
1988	Mar 19	Oct 28	Mar 19	Oct 28
1987	Apr 5	Oct 21	Mar 30	Nov 9
1986	Apr 15	Nov 2	Mar 21	Nov 9
1985	Apr 1	Sep 30	Mar 31	Nov 19
1984	Apr 30	Sep 30	Mar 30	Nov 2
1983	Apr 18	Nov 9	Mar 28	Nov 10
1982	Apr 22	Oct 20	Apr 9	Nov 3
1981	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 19	Nov 19
1980	Apr 14	Oct 28	Mar 24	Oct 29
1979	Apr 9	Nov 1	Apr 6	Nov 3
1978	Apr 25	Oct 14	Apr 20	Nov 19
1977	no data	Oct 11	no data	Nov 9
1976	May 3	Oct 16	Apr 1	Oct 17
1975	Apr 12	Oct 24	Apr 12	Oct 24
1974	Apr 16	Oct 15	Apr 5	Nov 6
1973	Apr 11	Oct 29	Apr 10	Nov 20
1972	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	Apr 6	Oct 31	Apr 6	Nov 6
1970	Apr 14	Oct 8	Apr 2	Nov 5
1969	Mar 30	Oct 13	Mar 30	Oct 14
1968	Apr 5	Oct 28	Apr 5	Nov 11
1967	May 2	Oct 27	Apr 24	Nov 3
1966	May 13	Oct 16	Apr 21	Oct 16
1965	Apr 28	Oct 22	Mar 30	Nov 9
1964	Apr 9	Oct 19	Apr 8	Nov 19
1963	Apr 23	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 13
1962	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 12	Oct 25
1961	May 2	Nov 2	Apr 17	Nov 2
1960	Apr 5	Oct 19	Mar 25	Nov 7
1959	Apr 22	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 27
1958	Apr 7	Oct 28	Mar 20	Nov 17
1957	Apr 13	Oct 24	Apr 13	Oct 25
1956	Apr 29	Oct 31	Apr 17	Nov 8
1955	Apr 7	Oct 23	Mar 28	Oct 24
1954	May 3	Oct 16	Apr 3	Oct 30
1953	May 14	Oct 26	May 14	Oct 27

"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.