Cambridge, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00251415, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,239 ft, 40.285, -100.143. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	May 3	Oct 4
Earliest	Apr 14 (1952)	Sep 3 (1974)
Latest	May 29 (1992)	Oct 28 (1963)
Trend	0.8 days later per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	72	73

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 13.

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