Last Frost Day

Frost history / Gretna 4NE, NE

Gretna 4NE, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00253467, 2004 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,240 ft, 41.159, -96.192. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 19Oct 19
EarliestMar 10 (2012)Oct 2 (2004)
LatestMay 4 (2013)Nov 3 (2007)
Trend0.7 days later per decade3.4 days later per decade
Years with data2021

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 9 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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 15201020202005: May 12006: Apr 92007: Apr 152008: Apr 292009: Apr 122010: Apr 92011: May 42012: Mar 102013: May 42014: Apr 182015: Apr 232016: Apr 132017: Apr 122018: Apr 202019: Apr 152021: Apr 242022: Apr 262023: Apr 242024: Apr 212025: Apr 9

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11201020202004: Oct 22005: Oct 72006: Oct 122007: Nov 32008: Oct 272009: Oct 102010: Oct 282011: Oct 192012: Oct 62013: Oct 212014: Oct 302015: Oct 292016: Oct 132017: Oct 272018: Oct 152019: Oct 122021: Oct 222022: Oct 82023: Oct 282024: Oct 162025: Oct 30

Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.

Year by year

YearLast spring 32°FFirst fall 32°FLast spring 28°FFirst fall 28°F
2025Apr 9Oct 30Apr 8Nov 9
2024Apr 21Oct 16Mar 29Nov 21
2023Apr 24Oct 28Apr 23Oct 28
2022Apr 26Oct 8Apr 20Oct 18
2021Apr 24Oct 22Apr 24Nov 2
2019Apr 15Oct 12Apr 15Oct 28
2018Apr 20Oct 15Apr 19Oct 15
2017Apr 12Oct 27Mar 16Oct 28
2016Apr 13Oct 13Apr 10Nov 19
2015Apr 23Oct 29Mar 28Nov 21
2014Apr 18Oct 30Apr 16Nov 1
2013May 4Oct 21Apr 25Nov 12
2012Mar 10Oct 6Mar 10Oct 6
2011May 4Oct 19Mar 29Nov 16
2010Apr 9Oct 28Mar 23Oct 28
2009Apr 12Oct 10Apr 8Oct 10
2008Apr 29Oct 27Apr 15Oct 28
2007Apr 15Nov 3Apr 11Nov 6
2006Apr 9Oct 12Mar 27Oct 13
2005May 1Oct 7Apr 2Oct 24
2004no dataOct 2no dataNov 3

"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.