David City, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00252205, 1951 to 2022, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,610 ft, 41.249, -97.133. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 27	Oct 10
Earliest	Mar 24 (1981)	Sep 18 (1973)
Latest	May 25 (1993)	Oct 29 (2015)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	69	67

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