Last Frost Day

Frost history / Callaway 8WSW, NE

Callaway 8WSW, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00251408, 2010 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,913 ft, 41.252, -100.075. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 10Oct 7
EarliestApr 12 (2012)Sep 13 (2014)
LatestMay 22 (2022)Oct 19 (2025)
Trend1.8 days earlier per decade8.1 days later per decade
Years with data1516

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 18.

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)

Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 30201020202011: May 42012: Apr 122013: May 52014: May 172015: May 122016: May 142017: May 212018: Apr 232019: May 112020: May 112021: May 102022: May 222023: May 32024: Apr 222025: Apr 20

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27201020202010: Oct 172011: Sep 222012: Sep 232013: Oct 162014: Sep 132015: Oct 162016: Oct 72017: Oct 102018: Oct 42019: Oct 72020: Oct 22021: Oct 142022: Oct 82023: Oct 72024: Oct 152025: Oct 19

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 20Oct 19Apr 19Nov 1
2024Apr 22Oct 15Apr 20Nov 17
2023May 3Oct 7Apr 24Oct 27
2022May 22Oct 8Apr 26Oct 17
2021May 10Oct 14Apr 22Oct 21
2020May 11Oct 2May 10Oct 19
2019May 11Oct 7Apr 15Oct 11
2018Apr 23Oct 4Apr 19Oct 11
2017May 21Oct 10Apr 27Oct 15
2016May 14Oct 7Apr 9Oct 13
2015May 12Oct 16Apr 23Oct 16
2014May 17Sep 13May 15Oct 18
2013May 5Oct 16May 4Oct 18
2012Apr 12Sep 23Mar 9Oct 2
2011May 4Sep 22Apr 20Oct 20
2010no dataOct 17no dataOct 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.