Holdrege, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00253910, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,320 ft, 40.452, -99.380. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 29	Oct 11
Earliest	Apr 6 (1977)	Sep 13 (1974)
Latest	May 29 (1992)	Nov 4 (1998)
Trend	1.1 days later per decade	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	70	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 22.

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 20	Oct 19	Apr 20	Oct 30
2024	Apr 22	Oct 14	Apr 21	Nov 17
2023	May 2	Oct 7	May 2	Oct 16
2022	Apr 25	Oct 17	Apr 25	Oct 17
2021	May 10	Oct 14	Apr 22	Nov 4
2020	May 10	Oct 19	May 10	Oct 24
2019	May 10	Oct 11	Apr 14	Oct 11
2018	Apr 20	Oct 11	Apr 20	Oct 11
2017	May 1	Oct 15	Apr 29	Oct 22
2016	May 2	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 7
2015	May 13	Oct 16	Apr 14	Oct 17
2014	May 16	Oct 4	Apr 18	Oct 19
2013	May 7	Oct 16	May 5	Oct 21
2012	May 10	Oct 2	Mar 10	Oct 5
2011	May 17	Oct 1	May 3	Oct 19
2010	May 9	Oct 14	Apr 17	Oct 28
2009	Apr 29	Oct 9	Apr 8	Oct 9
2008	May 12	Oct 23	Apr 15	Oct 27
2007	Apr 16	Oct 27	Apr 9	Nov 6
2006	Apr 27	Oct 12	Apr 27	Oct 13
2005	May 4	Oct 7	Mar 21	Oct 24
2004	May 3	Oct 14	May 3	Oct 31
2003	Apr 10	Oct 26	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	Apr 27	Oct 13	Apr 4	Oct 23
2001	Apr 23	Oct 16	Apr 18	Oct 17
2000	Apr 23	Sep 25	Apr 16	Oct 6
1999	May 13	Oct 2	Apr 5	Nov 2
1998	Apr 19	Nov 4	Apr 5	Nov 10
1997	Apr 18	Oct 26	Apr 15	Oct 26
1996	Apr 24	Oct 9	Apr 14	Oct 18
1995	Apr 28	Sep 22	Apr 12	Sep 22
1994	May 2	Oct 25	Apr 30	Nov 4
1993	Apr 22	Oct 9	Apr 4	Oct 27
1992	May 29	Oct 9	Apr 23	Oct 17
1991	May 7	Sep 20	Mar 31	Oct 6
1990	Apr 28	Oct 8	Apr 13	Oct 11
1989	May 6	Sep 23	Apr 13	Oct 19
1988	Apr 27	Oct 5	Apr 19	Oct 28
1984	May 1	no data	Apr 5	no data
1983	no data	Sep 22	no data	Nov 10
1982	no data	Oct 11	no data	Oct 20
1981	May 11	Oct 22	Mar 19	Oct 22
1980	Apr 15	Oct 24	Apr 15	Oct 25
1979	May 11	Oct 10	Apr 9	Oct 23
1978	Apr 23	Oct 6	Apr 21	Oct 14
1977	Apr 6	Oct 9	Apr 5	Oct 11
1976	May 7	Sep 28	May 3	Oct 7
1975	Apr 19	Oct 15	Apr 12	Oct 25
1974	Apr 16	Sep 13	Apr 16	Oct 15
1973	Apr 16	Oct 28	Apr 16	Oct 28
1972	Apr 25	Oct 7	Apr 24	Oct 18
1971	May 12	Sep 19	Apr 7	Oct 29
1970	May 2	Oct 8	Apr 23	Oct 8
1969	Apr 29	Oct 12	Apr 5	Oct 13
1968	May 20	Oct 18	Apr 14	Nov 3
1967	May 4	Sep 27	May 3	Oct 10
1966	May 13	Oct 1	May 13	Oct 15
1965	Apr 28	Sep 24	Apr 28	Nov 4
1964	Apr 14	Oct 9	Apr 8	Nov 13
1963	Apr 30	Nov 1	Apr 4	Nov 1
1962	Apr 16	Oct 25	Apr 15	Oct 25
1961	Apr 28	Oct 19	Apr 17	Nov 2
1960	Apr 30	Oct 19	Mar 25	Oct 19
1959	Apr 21	Oct 1	Apr 13	Oct 17
1958	Apr 29	Oct 10	Mar 25	Nov 8
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 25
1956	Apr 30	Nov 3	Apr 29	Nov 6
1955	Apr 7	Oct 24	Apr 7	Oct 24
1954	May 3	Oct 15	May 3	Oct 31
1953	May 14	Oct 6	Apr 20	Nov 6
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.