Central City, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00251560, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,700 ft, 41.122, -98.028. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 25	Oct 11
Earliest	Apr 5 (1969)	Sep 19 (1991)
Latest	May 22 (1963)	Nov 3 (1998)
Trend	1.4 days earlier per decade	0.9 days later per decade
Years with data	65	66

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