Hastings 4N, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00253660, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,938 ft, 40.647, -98.384. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 25	Oct 12
Earliest	Mar 9 (2012)	Sep 20 (1983)
Latest	May 17 (2014)	Nov 3 (1998)
Trend	0.8 days later per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	70	74

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 24.

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 19	Oct 22	Apr 19	Oct 30
2024	Apr 21	Oct 14	Apr 21	Nov 17
2023	May 2	Oct 16	May 2	Oct 27
2022	Apr 25	Oct 16	Apr 16	Oct 17
2021	Apr 22	Oct 16	Apr 21	Nov 12
2020	May 10	Oct 16	Apr 17	Oct 24
2019	May 10	Oct 10	Apr 14	Oct 11
2018	Apr 28	Oct 10	Apr 19	Oct 11
2017	May 1	Oct 11	Apr 27	Oct 27
2016	May 14	Oct 7	Apr 9	Nov 18
2015	Apr 22	Oct 16	Mar 28	Oct 28
2014	May 17	Oct 4	Apr 15	Oct 29
2013	May 3	Oct 18	May 3	Nov 11
2012	Mar 9	Oct 5	Mar 9	Oct 6
2011	May 2	Oct 19	Mar 28	Oct 19
2010	May 8	Oct 28	Mar 28	Nov 1
2009	Apr 28	Oct 4	Apr 28	Oct 9
2008	May 11	Oct 16	Apr 26	Oct 26
2007	Apr 14	Oct 26	Apr 12	Nov 3
2006	Apr 26	Oct 12	Apr 26	Oct 12
2005	May 3	Sep 29	May 3	Oct 7
2004	May 14	Oct 1	Apr 13	Oct 14
2003	Apr 9	Oct 16	Apr 9	Oct 25
2002	Apr 25	Oct 12	Apr 25	Oct 23
2001	Apr 17	Oct 6	Apr 17	Oct 26
2000	Apr 21	Sep 25	Apr 15	Oct 5
1999	Apr 18	Oct 2	Apr 18	Oct 17
1998	Apr 21	Nov 3	Apr 17	Nov 11
1997	May 13	Oct 25	Apr 16	Oct 25
1996	Apr 26	Oct 10	Apr 15	Oct 18
1995	Apr 27	Sep 21	Apr 12	Sep 21
1994	Apr 30	Oct 23	Apr 7	Oct 24
1993	no data	Oct 9	no data	Oct 10
1992	no data	Oct 9	no data	Oct 18
1991	Mar 31	Sep 20	Mar 31	Oct 19
1990	Apr 29	Oct 10	Apr 18	Oct 18
1989	Apr 20	Sep 23	Apr 13	Oct 19
1988	Apr 27	Oct 4	Apr 19	Oct 28
1987	Apr 12	Oct 10	Apr 4	Oct 11
1986	Apr 22	Oct 12	Apr 16	Oct 13
1985	Apr 9	Sep 24	Apr 8	Oct 1
1984	Apr 5	Sep 30	Apr 1	Nov 2
1983	Apr 20	Sep 20	Apr 15	Nov 9
1982	Apr 21	Oct 20	Apr 21	Oct 21
1981	May 10	Oct 18	Mar 20	Oct 22
1980	no data	Oct 24	no data	Oct 25
1979	Apr 9	Oct 9	Apr 9	Oct 13
1978	Apr 21	Oct 16	Apr 21	Nov 11
1977	Apr 5	Oct 9	Apr 5	Nov 9
1976	May 3	Oct 16	Mar 21	Oct 16
1975	May 1	Oct 18	Apr 29	Oct 25
1974	Apr 16	Oct 2	Apr 4	Oct 15
1973	May 2	Oct 12	Apr 13	Oct 29
1972	Apr 25	Oct 7	Apr 8	Oct 19
1971	Apr 27	Oct 28	Apr 6	Oct 31
1970	Apr 23	Oct 8	Apr 4	Oct 31
1969	Apr 6	Oct 12	Mar 31	Oct 14
1968	Apr 24	Oct 23	Apr 7	Oct 24
1967	May 4	Oct 25	May 3	Oct 25
1966	no data	Oct 14	no data	Oct 16
1964	Apr 9	Oct 8	Apr 9	Oct 9
1963	Apr 23	Oct 29	Apr 4	Nov 12
1962	Apr 15	Oct 24	Apr 15	Oct 24
1961	May 2	Oct 19	Apr 17	Nov 3
1960	May 1	Oct 19	Apr 2	Oct 19
1959	Apr 22	Oct 9	Apr 13	Oct 17
1958	Apr 29	Oct 1	Apr 29	Oct 28
1957	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 25
1956	Apr 29	Oct 31	Apr 24	Nov 6
1955	Apr 14	Oct 17	Mar 28	Oct 24
1954	May 4	Oct 15	May 3	Oct 30
1953	May 14	Oct 6	May 14	Oct 24
1952	Apr 15	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.