Higginsville, MO: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00233838, 1992 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 836 ft, 39.073, -93.707. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 11	Oct 25
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 4 (2013)	Nov 13 (2016)
Trend	1.8 days later per decade	1.8 days later per decade
Years with data	34	34

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 2 and the median first fall date is Oct 31.

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 8	Nov 2	Mar 20	Nov 2
2024	Mar 28	Oct 16	Mar 28	Nov 22
2023	Apr 23	Oct 28	Apr 6	Oct 30
2022	Apr 19	Oct 8	Apr 1	Oct 18
2021	Apr 22	Nov 2	Apr 22	Nov 3
2020	Apr 18	Oct 26	Apr 13	Oct 26
2019	Apr 12	Oct 12	Apr 1	Oct 31
2018	Apr 19	Oct 15	Apr 17	Oct 16
2017	Mar 22	Oct 28	Mar 16	Oct 28
2016	Apr 12	Nov 13	Apr 9	Nov 19
2015	Apr 4	Nov 9	Mar 7	Nov 22
2014	Apr 18	Nov 1	Apr 15	Nov 1
2013	May 4	Oct 19	Mar 28	Oct 25
2012	Mar 10	Oct 7	Mar 6	Oct 27
2011	Apr 5	Oct 21	Mar 7	Nov 17
2010	Mar 23	Oct 29	Mar 21	Oct 29
2009	Apr 8	Oct 10	Apr 8	Nov 27
2008	Apr 15	Oct 27	Apr 14	Oct 28
2007	Apr 14	Oct 28	Apr 9	Nov 7
2006	Mar 26	Oct 13	Mar 24	Oct 24
2005	Apr 24	Oct 25	Mar 20	Nov 16
2004	Apr 13	Nov 5	Mar 22	Nov 12
2003	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 9	Nov 7
2002	Apr 5	Oct 16	Apr 5	Nov 1
2001	Apr 18	Oct 17	Mar 27	Oct 27
2000	Apr 12	Oct 7	Apr 8	Oct 7
1999	Mar 27	Oct 18	Mar 26	Oct 24
1998	Mar 24	Nov 6	Mar 21	Nov 6
1997	Apr 17	Oct 27	Apr 14	Oct 27
1996	Apr 15	Oct 23	Apr 6	Nov 2
1995	Apr 6	Sep 22	Apr 5	Nov 3
1994	Apr 8	Oct 25	Apr 7	Oct 26
1993	Apr 6	Oct 10	Apr 2	Oct 30
1992	Apr 3	Nov 4	Apr 2	Nov 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.