Kearney 4 Ne, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00254335, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,130 ft, 40.726, -99.013. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 30	Oct 8
Earliest	Apr 6 (1977)	Sep 13 (1974)
Latest	May 28 (1992)	Nov 1 (1963)
Trend	0.5 days later per decade	0.6 days later per decade
Years with data	73	73

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 19 and the median first fall date is Oct 19.

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 22	Apr 20	Oct 30
2024	Apr 22	Oct 14	Apr 5	Nov 21
2023	May 3	Oct 7	May 2	Oct 27
2022	Apr 26	Oct 17	Apr 16	Oct 17
2021	May 10	Oct 22	Apr 22	Nov 13
2020	May 10	Oct 19	Apr 18	Oct 24
2019	May 11	Oct 11	Apr 14	Oct 11
2018	Apr 20	Oct 11	Apr 20	Oct 11
2017	Apr 30	Oct 11	Apr 27	Oct 27
2016	Apr 12	Oct 7	Apr 9	Nov 12
2015	Apr 22	Oct 16	Apr 22	Oct 29
2014	May 18	Oct 4	Apr 17	Oct 29
2013	May 7	Oct 16	Apr 25	Nov 6
2012	Apr 11	Oct 2	Mar 10	Oct 6
2011	May 16	Oct 19	Apr 16	Oct 20
2010	May 8	Oct 3	Mar 28	Nov 1
2009	Apr 29	Oct 4	Apr 28	Oct 9
2008	May 3	Oct 16	Apr 28	Oct 27
2007	Apr 16	Oct 23	Apr 9	Nov 3
2006	Apr 27	Oct 12	Apr 26	Oct 12
2005	May 4	Sep 29	May 4	Oct 24
2004	May 14	Oct 14	Apr 14	Oct 14
2003	Apr 10	Oct 16	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	May 3	Oct 13	Apr 26	Oct 13
2001	Apr 23	Oct 16	Apr 18	Oct 16
2000	Apr 22	Sep 25	Apr 22	Oct 6
1999	Apr 19	Oct 2	Apr 19	Oct 17
1998	Apr 30	Oct 8	Apr 18	Nov 10
1997	May 12	Oct 25	Apr 26	Oct 26
1996	Apr 23	Oct 10	Apr 23	Oct 18
1995	Apr 27	Sep 21	Apr 27	Sep 22
1994	Apr 30	Oct 9	Apr 30	Oct 23
1993	May 3	Oct 9	Apr 16	Oct 9
1992	May 28	Oct 9	Apr 26	Oct 9
1991	May 7	Sep 19	May 6	Sep 19
1990	May 10	Sep 23	May 1	Oct 10
1989	May 7	Sep 23	May 7	Oct 18
1988	Apr 28	Oct 4	Apr 27	Oct 28
1987	Apr 22	Oct 7	Apr 10	Oct 7
1986	Apr 21	Oct 12	Apr 21	Oct 13
1985	Apr 14	Sep 24	Apr 8	Sep 30
1984	Apr 30	Sep 26	Mar 30	Sep 29
1983	no data	Sep 20	no data	Oct 13
1981	May 10	Sep 17	May 10	Oct 22
1980	May 8	no data	Apr 14	no data
1979	May 11	Oct 10	Apr 9	Oct 23
1978	Apr 22	Oct 6	Apr 21	Oct 6
1977	Apr 6	Oct 9	Apr 5	Oct 12
1976	May 7	Sep 28	May 3	Sep 28
1975	Apr 19	Sep 30	Apr 12	Oct 24
1974	Apr 17	Sep 13	Apr 6	Oct 15
1973	May 15	Oct 27	Apr 16	Nov 5
1972	Apr 24	Oct 7	Apr 8	Oct 19
1971	May 12	Sep 19	Apr 7	Oct 29
1970	May 2	Sep 26	Apr 21	Oct 15
1969	Apr 19	Oct 12	Mar 31	Oct 14
1968	May 20	Oct 6	Apr 9	Nov 3
1967	May 5	Sep 27	May 4	Oct 11
1966	May 13	Oct 1	May 13	Oct 15
1965	Apr 28	Sep 24	Apr 28	Sep 24
1964	Apr 14	Oct 5	Apr 9	Oct 9
1963	Apr 30	Nov 1	Apr 23	Nov 1
1962	Apr 16	Oct 25	Apr 15	Oct 25
1961	Apr 28	Oct 23	Apr 17	Oct 23
1960	Apr 30	Oct 16	Apr 5	Oct 19
1959	Apr 22	Oct 3	Apr 13	Oct 17
1958	Apr 29	Sep 30	Apr 29	Sep 30
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 25
1956	Apr 30	Oct 21	Apr 30	Nov 6
1955	Apr 7	Oct 24	Apr 7	Oct 24
1954	May 4	Oct 16	May 4	Oct 31
1953	May 14	Oct 6	May 14	Nov 6
1952	Apr 14	Oct 6	Apr 11	Oct 6
1951	Apr 23	Sep 28	Apr 22	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.