Fairbury 5S, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00252820, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,350 ft, 40.074, -97.167. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 26	Oct 10
Earliest	Apr 6 (1977)	Sep 14 (2014)
Latest	May 18 (2014)	Oct 30 (2025)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	0.5 days later per decade
Years with data	73	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 13 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.

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 15	Oct 30	Apr 8	Oct 30
2024	Apr 21	Oct 14	Apr 5	Oct 16
2023	May 2	Oct 28	Apr 23	Oct 28
2022	Apr 26	Oct 8	Apr 18	Oct 8
2021	Apr 22	Oct 21	Apr 21	Nov 13
2020	May 10	Oct 2	Apr 18	Oct 24
2018	Apr 28	Oct 12	Apr 20	Oct 15
2017	Apr 28	Oct 28	Apr 12	Oct 28
2016	Apr 13	Oct 13	Apr 13	Oct 13
2015	Apr 23	Oct 17	Mar 28	Oct 29
2014	May 18	Sep 14	May 17	Oct 29
2013	May 4	Oct 17	Apr 27	Oct 25
2012	Apr 24	Sep 23	Mar 10	Oct 7
2011	May 17	Oct 19	May 4	Oct 20
2010	Apr 18	Oct 3	Mar 23	Oct 28
2009	Apr 15	Oct 4	Apr 15	Oct 10
2008	Apr 28	Oct 17	Apr 15	Oct 28
2007	Apr 16	Oct 23	Apr 9	Nov 1
2006	Apr 9	Oct 12	Mar 26	Oct 13
2005	May 4	Oct 7	Apr 3	Oct 24
2004	May 4	Oct 2	Apr 12	Nov 3
2003	Apr 10	Oct 17	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	Apr 23	Oct 13	Apr 5	Oct 24
2001	Apr 18	Oct 16	Mar 27	Oct 27
2000	Apr 13	Oct 6	Apr 9	Oct 7
1999	Apr 19	Oct 4	Apr 5	Oct 24
1998	Apr 19	no data	Apr 17	no data
1997	May 14	Oct 26	Apr 15	Oct 27
1996	May 1	Oct 30	Apr 7	Oct 31
1995	May 3	Sep 22	Apr 5	Sep 22
1994	May 2	Oct 25	May 1	Oct 25
1993	Apr 9	Oct 10	Apr 6	Oct 27
1992	Apr 28	Oct 8	Apr 23	Nov 5
1991	May 7	Sep 19	Mar 31	Oct 6
1990	Apr 29	Oct 10	Apr 14	Nov 5
1989	May 2	Oct 18	Apr 20	Oct 19
1988	Apr 29	Oct 7	Apr 27	Oct 26
1987	Apr 13	Oct 3	Apr 6	Oct 21
1986	Apr 23	Oct 13	Apr 15	Nov 5
1985	Apr 10	Oct 1	Apr 9	Oct 1
1983	Apr 19	Sep 23	Apr 16	Nov 11
1982	Apr 23	Oct 20	Apr 22	Oct 21
1981	May 12	Oct 19	Mar 24	Oct 23
1980	Apr 15	Oct 3	Apr 13	Oct 25
1979	May 12	Oct 2	Apr 28	Oct 13
1978	Apr 22	Oct 7	Apr 22	Nov 7
1977	Apr 6	Oct 9	Apr 1	Oct 12
1976	May 4	Oct 8	May 4	Oct 16
1975	Apr 21	Oct 1	Apr 13	Oct 1
1974	Apr 17	Oct 1	Apr 6	Oct 15
1973	May 16	Oct 29	Apr 11	Oct 29
1972	Apr 9	Sep 30	Apr 8	Oct 19
1971	Apr 29	Oct 10	Apr 7	Oct 31
1970	May 3	Oct 9	Apr 5	Oct 31
1969	Apr 19	Oct 14	Apr 6	Oct 14
1968	Apr 27	Oct 4	Apr 6	Oct 28
1967	May 3	Oct 19	May 3	Oct 28
1966	May 13	Oct 16	Apr 22	Oct 16
1965	Apr 29	Sep 24	Apr 29	Oct 22
1964	Apr 14	Oct 5	Apr 9	Oct 9
1963	Apr 24	Oct 29	Apr 23	Nov 1
1962	Apr 16	Oct 25	Apr 15	Oct 25
1961	May 3	Sep 28	May 2	Oct 26
1960	May 12	Oct 19	Apr 5	Oct 19
1959	May 15	Oct 9	Apr 22	Oct 18
1958	Apr 29	no data	Apr 29	no data
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 14	Oct 25
1956	Apr 29	Oct 7	Apr 24	Oct 26
1955	Apr 8	Oct 15	Apr 7	Oct 24
1954	May 5	Oct 16	Apr 4	Oct 30
1953	May 14	Oct 5	Apr 20	Oct 27
1952	Apr 15	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 6
1951	Apr 22	Sep 28	Apr 16	Oct 31

"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.