Frost history / Tallgrass Prairie Np, KS
Tallgrass Prairie Np, KS: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00148061, 2000 to 2023, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,250 ft, 38.433, -96.558. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Apr 14 | Oct 21 |
| Earliest | Mar 16 (2017) | Sep 26 (2000) |
| Latest | May 4 (2013) | Nov 13 (2021) |
| Trend | 1.1 days later per decade | 7.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 23 | 22 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 6 and the median first fall date is Oct 29.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Apr 23 | Oct 28 | Apr 6 | Oct 30 |
| 2022 | Apr 14 | Oct 18 | Apr 9 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | Apr 21 | Nov 13 | Apr 1 | Nov 13 |
| 2020 | Apr 14 | Oct 26 | Apr 13 | Oct 26 |
| 2019 | Apr 14 | Oct 12 | Apr 1 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 17 | Oct 16 | Apr 16 | Oct 16 |
| 2017 | Mar 16 | Oct 28 | Mar 15 | Oct 28 |
| 2016 | Apr 2 | Nov 12 | Apr 2 | Nov 19 |
| 2015 | Apr 4 | Oct 29 | Apr 4 | Nov 22 |
| 2014 | Apr 18 | Oct 31 | Apr 15 | Nov 1 |
| 2013 | May 4 | no data | Apr 24 | no data |
| 2012 | Apr 23 | Oct 7 | Mar 9 | Oct 7 |
| 2011 | Apr 5 | Oct 19 | Mar 15 | Oct 20 |
| 2010 | Apr 9 | Nov 3 | Mar 26 | Nov 5 |
| 2009 | Apr 8 | Oct 10 | Apr 8 | Nov 26 |
| 2008 | Apr 15 | no data | Apr 14 | no data |
| 2007 | Apr 16 | Nov 1 | Apr 9 | Nov 1 |
| 2006 | Mar 28 | Oct 13 | Mar 26 | Oct 22 |
| 2005 | May 2 | Oct 23 | Mar 27 | Oct 25 |
| 2004 | no data | Oct 2 | no data | Nov 26 |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | Oct 26 | Apr 10 | Nov 6 |
| 2002 | Apr 5 | Oct 14 | Apr 4 | Nov 4 |
| 2001 | Apr 19 | Oct 17 | Apr 18 | Oct 27 |
| 2000 | Apr 8 | Sep 26 | Apr 8 | Oct 7 |
"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.