Crofton, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00252037, 1988 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,400 ft, 42.736, -97.497. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	May 2	Oct 7
Earliest	Apr 11 (2009)	Sep 18 (1991)
Latest	May 26 (1992)	Oct 24 (1994)
Trend	1.1 days earlier per decade	2.4 days later per decade
Years with data	36	36

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 19 and the median first fall date is Oct 15.

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 21	no data	Apr 21	no data
2024	Apr 24	Oct 14	Apr 20	Oct 14
2023	May 3	Oct 7	Apr 24	Oct 27
2022	May 2	Oct 7	Apr 26	Oct 14
2021	May 11	Oct 21	May 11	Oct 23
2020	May 11	Oct 2	Apr 17	Oct 15
2019	May 2	Oct 11	Apr 14	Oct 11
2018	Apr 28	Oct 4	Apr 20	Oct 14
2017	May 1	Oct 10	Apr 11	Oct 27
2016	Apr 12	Oct 12	Apr 12	Nov 18
2015	May 12	Oct 16	Apr 23	Nov 7
2014	May 17	Oct 4	May 16	Oct 29
2013	May 12	Oct 13	May 12	Oct 21
2012	Apr 11	Sep 22	Apr 11	Sep 23
2010	May 7	Oct 17	Apr 17	Oct 28
2009	Apr 11	Sep 29	Apr 11	Oct 9
2008	May 3	Oct 14	Apr 28	Oct 27
2007	Apr 14	Oct 11	Apr 13	Oct 28
2006	Apr 26	Oct 11	Apr 8	Oct 12
2005	May 3	Oct 6	May 3	Oct 6
2004	May 14	Oct 1	Apr 13	Oct 2
2003	Apr 22	Sep 29	Apr 9	Oct 1
2002	May 20	Sep 27	May 2	Oct 13
2001	Apr 23	Oct 6	Apr 17	Oct 6
2000	Apr 21	Sep 25	Apr 21	Oct 6
1999	Apr 18	Sep 29	Apr 18	Oct 2
1998	Apr 29	Oct 1	Apr 17	Nov 5
1997	May 20	Oct 13	May 13	Oct 21
1996	Apr 30	Oct 2	Apr 30	Oct 27
1995	May 2	Sep 22	Apr 11	Oct 21
1994	Apr 30	Oct 24	Apr 29	Oct 25
1993	Apr 21	Oct 9	Apr 5	Oct 9
1992	May 26	Oct 16	Apr 23	Oct 17
1991	May 5	Sep 18	Mar 30	Sep 19
1990	May 1	Oct 10	Apr 28	Oct 18
1989	May 7	Sep 23	Apr 12	Sep 23
1988	no data	Oct 4	no data	Oct 5

"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.