Auburn 5 Ese, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00250435, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 930 ft, 40.371, -95.747. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 24	Oct 7
Earliest	Apr 6 (1969)	Sep 13 (2014)
Latest	May 28 (1992)	Oct 31 (1971)
Trend	0.9 days later per decade	0.5 days earlier per decade
Years with data	75	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 11 and the median first fall date is Oct 21.

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

"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.