Wichita Wx, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00148847, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,334 ft, 37.655, -97.443. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 9	Oct 26
Earliest	Mar 9 (2012)	Oct 7 (2012)
Latest	Apr 24 (2013)	Nov 13 (2015)
Trend	7.1 days later per decade	0.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data	15	16

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 25 and the median first fall date is Nov 2.

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
2025	Apr 7	Oct 30	Mar 20	Nov 2
2024	Mar 28	Oct 16	Mar 28	Nov 25
2023	Apr 23	Oct 28	Apr 5	Oct 30
2022	Apr 9	Oct 18	Mar 31	Oct 19
2021	Apr 22	Nov 12	Mar 2	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 26
2019	Apr 12	Oct 11	Mar 31	Oct 28
2018	Apr 19	Oct 14	Apr 16	Nov 9
2017	Mar 15	Oct 27	Mar 15	Oct 28
2016	Apr 3	Nov 12	Mar 25	Nov 19
2015	Apr 4	Nov 13	Mar 6	Nov 21
2014	Apr 18	Oct 31	Mar 24	Nov 1
2013	Apr 24	Oct 18	Apr 24	Oct 19
2012	Mar 9	Oct 7	Mar 3	Oct 27
2011	Apr 5	Oct 20	Mar 24	Nov 4
2010	no data	Nov 5	no data	Nov 18

"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.