Last Frost Day

Frost history / Kilgore 1NE, NE

Kilgore 1NE, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00254432, 1999 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 2,905 ft, 42.950, -100.945. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianMay 12Sep 30
EarliestApr 23 (1999)Sep 6 (2025)
LatestMay 24 (2019)Oct 16 (2015)
Trend1.8 days later per decadelittle change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data1820

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 2 and the median first fall date is Oct 9.

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)

Apr 15Apr 30May 15May 302000201020201999: Apr 232004: May 162005: May 162006: May 122010: May 92011: May 42012: May 122013: May 62014: May 162015: May 202016: May 152017: May 242018: Apr 252019: May 242020: May 132023: May 202024: May 12025: May 3

First fall frost (32°F)

Aug 28Sep 12Sep 27Oct 12Oct 272000201020202000: Sep 252003: Sep 182004: Sep 262005: Sep 292006: Sep 172008: Oct 122009: Oct 32010: Oct 22011: Sep 222012: Sep 222013: Oct 52014: Sep 122015: Oct 162017: Oct 42018: Oct 42019: Oct 82020: Sep 82023: Oct 72024: Oct 12025: Sep 6

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
2025May 3Sep 6Apr 19Oct 19
2024May 1Oct 1Apr 21Oct 1
2023May 20Oct 7May 2Oct 7
2020May 13Sep 8May 11Oct 15
2019May 24Oct 8May 24Oct 11
2018Apr 25Oct 4Apr 20Oct 6
2017May 24Oct 4Apr 27Oct 10
2016May 15no dataMay 15no data
2015May 20Oct 16Apr 5Oct 16
2014May 16Sep 12May 15Oct 4
2013May 6Oct 5May 5Oct 16
2012May 12Sep 22Apr 11Oct 5
2011May 4Sep 22May 3Oct 20
2010May 9Oct 2May 9Oct 28
2009no dataOct 3no dataOct 4
2008no dataOct 12no dataOct 27
2006May 12Sep 17Apr 9Sep 19
2005May 16Sep 29May 4Oct 7
2004May 16Sep 26May 16Oct 13
2003no dataSep 18no dataSep 30
2000no dataSep 25no dataOct 6
1999Apr 23no dataApr 18no data

"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.