Syracuse 1NE, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00148038, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 3,308 ft, 37.993, -101.742. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	May 2	Oct 8
Earliest	Apr 10 (2003)	Sep 3 (1974)
Latest	May 23 (2019)	Oct 28 (1988)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.2 days later per decade
Years with data	70	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 18 and the median first fall date is Oct 16.

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	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 16	Oct 19
2024	May 8	Oct 16	Apr 11	Oct 31
2023	Apr 30	Oct 7	Apr 22	Oct 15
2022	Apr 25	Oct 16	Apr 18	Oct 19
2021	Apr 30	Oct 16	Apr 22	Oct 16
2020	Apr 26	Sep 29	Apr 16	Oct 16
2019	May 23	Oct 11	Apr 20	Oct 11
2018	Apr 28	Oct 11	Apr 20	Oct 15
2017	May 4	Oct 11	Apr 7	Oct 16
2016	May 3	Oct 7	Apr 2	Oct 8
2015	Apr 20	no data	Apr 11	no data
2014	May 15	no data	Apr 16	no data
2013	May 6	Oct 17	May 6	Oct 19
2012	Apr 17	Oct 8	Mar 20	Oct 8
2011	no data	Oct 18	no data	Oct 27
2010	no data	Oct 27	no data	Oct 28
2009	Apr 10	Oct 2	Apr 8	Oct 10
2008	May 11	no data	May 11	no data
2007	Apr 27	Oct 19	Apr 15	Oct 19
2006	Apr 27	Oct 13	Apr 27	Oct 19
2005	May 2	Oct 24	Apr 30	Oct 24
2004	May 14	Oct 14	Apr 14	Oct 14
2003	Apr 10	Oct 14	Apr 9	Oct 26
2002	May 13	Oct 13	Apr 4	Oct 17
2001	Apr 23	Oct 6	Apr 17	Oct 13
2000	May 19	Sep 25	Apr 21	Sep 25
1999	May 7	Sep 29	Apr 18	Oct 4
1998	May 1	Oct 6	Apr 23	Oct 18
1997	May 4	Oct 13	May 3	Oct 25
1996	Apr 30	Oct 18	Apr 29	Oct 18
1995	Apr 28	Sep 21	Apr 12	Oct 14
1994	Apr 29	Oct 9	Apr 28	Oct 31
1993	May 3	Oct 9	Apr 21	Oct 27
1992	Apr 21	Oct 8	Apr 3	Oct 8
1991	May 5	Oct 5	May 2	Oct 5
1990	May 10	Oct 9	Apr 13	Oct 9
1989	May 2	Oct 17	Apr 12	Oct 17
1988	May 4	Oct 28	Apr 11	Nov 6
1987	no data	Oct 7	no data	Oct 23
1986	Apr 15	Oct 12	Apr 15	Oct 13
1985	Apr 14	Sep 29	Apr 6	Sep 30
1984	May 8	Sep 29	Apr 27	Sep 30
1983	no data	Sep 21	no data	Sep 21
1982	no data	Oct 11	no data	Oct 11
1981	May 14	Oct 19	May 10	Oct 19
1980	Apr 19	Oct 3	Apr 18	Oct 11
1979	May 11	Oct 4	May 11	Oct 10
1978	May 3	Sep 21	Apr 25	Oct 6
1977	Apr 22	Oct 11	Apr 7	Oct 11
1976	May 17	Oct 5	Apr 4	Oct 8
1975	Apr 28	Sep 22	Apr 14	Sep 25
1974	Apr 22	Sep 3	Apr 16	Oct 15
1973	May 3	Oct 13	Apr 27	Oct 25
1972	May 3	Sep 30	May 3	Oct 24
1971	May 13	Sep 19	Apr 27	Sep 19
1970	May 2	Sep 26	May 1	Oct 8
1969	Apr 28	Oct 6	Apr 8	Oct 12
1968	Apr 24	Oct 3	Apr 24	Oct 18
1967	May 21	Sep 28	May 2	Oct 16
1966	May 13	Oct 1	May 13	Oct 1
1965	Apr 29	Oct 1	Apr 28	Nov 4
1964	May 9	Oct 5	Apr 14	Oct 5
1963	Apr 30	Oct 28	Apr 23	Nov 1
1962	May 2	Oct 14	Apr 2	Oct 24
1961	Apr 29	Sep 25	Apr 22	Sep 25
1960	May 2	Oct 20	Apr 3	Oct 31
1959	Apr 23	Oct 8	Apr 23	Oct 17
1958	Apr 29	Oct 1	Apr 24	Oct 22
1957	Apr 14	Oct 24	Apr 14	Oct 24
1956	Apr 30	Oct 21	Apr 10	Oct 21
1955	Apr 28	Oct 7	Apr 7	Oct 24
1954	May 3	Oct 15	Apr 16	Oct 15
1953	May 14	Oct 5	Apr 26	Nov 8
1952	Apr 13	Oct 7	Apr 13	Oct 7
1951	May 3	Sep 22	Apr 21	Oct 31

"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.