Friend 3E, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00253065, 2007 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,535 ft, 40.656, -97.221. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 22	Oct 17
Earliest	Apr 9 (2010)	Oct 4 (2009)
Latest	May 4 (2013)	Nov 1 (2007)
Trend	0.6 days later per decade	2.6 days earlier per decade
Years with data	18	19

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 17 and the median first fall date is Oct 28.

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 20	Oct 30	Apr 9	Oct 30
2024	Apr 22	Oct 15	Apr 21	Oct 16
2023	Apr 24	Oct 17	Apr 24	Oct 28
2022	Apr 27	Oct 8	Apr 26	Oct 17
2021	Apr 23	Oct 22	Apr 23	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 16	Apr 18	Oct 24
2019	Apr 15	Oct 11	Apr 15	Oct 12
2018	Apr 28	Oct 11	Apr 20	Oct 15
2017	May 1	Oct 11	Apr 28	Oct 28
2016	Apr 13	Oct 13	Apr 13	Nov 12
2015	Apr 23	Oct 17	Apr 23	Oct 29
2014	Apr 18	Oct 29	Apr 16	Oct 30
2013	May 4	Oct 18	Apr 25	Nov 12
2012	Apr 12	Oct 6	Mar 10	Oct 7
2011	Apr 18	Oct 19	Apr 5	Oct 20
2010	Apr 9	Oct 28	Mar 23	Oct 28
2009	Apr 28	Oct 4	Apr 8	Oct 10
2008	Apr 29	Oct 27	Apr 15	Oct 27
2007	no data	Nov 1	no data	Nov 1

"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.