Wakeeney, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00148495, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,445 ft, 39.015, -99.872. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 19	Oct 17
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 13 (2014)
Latest	May 15 (1983)	Nov 9 (2016)
Trend	1.1 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	75	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 12 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.

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

"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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.