Yates Ctr, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00149080, 1955 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,112 ft, 37.883, -95.728. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 8	Oct 26
Earliest	Mar 9 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 8 (1980)	Nov 21 (2024)
Trend	0.5 days earlier per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	65	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 30 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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

"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.