Winfield 3NE, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00148964, 1951 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,233 ft, 37.289, -96.941. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 14	Oct 23
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 21 (1995)
Latest	May 4 (2013)	Nov 13 (2004)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	0.6 days later per decade
Years with data	71	66

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 3 and the median first fall date is Nov 4.

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

"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.