Last Frost Day

Frost history / Raymond 2E, NE

Raymond 2E, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00257055, 2003 to 2015, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,283 ft, 40.954, -96.744. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 15Oct 17
EarliestApr 9 (2006)Oct 2 (2004)
LatestMay 4 (2013)Oct 29 (2014)
Trend1.3 days later per decade9.2 days later per decade
Years with data1312

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 8 and the median first fall date is Oct 25.

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 31Apr 15Apr 30May 1520102003: Apr 102004: May 42005: May 32006: Apr 92007: Apr 142008: Apr 152009: Apr 122010: Apr 92011: Apr 182012: Apr 122013: May 42014: Apr 192015: Apr 24

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 1120102003: Oct 172004: Oct 22005: Oct 72006: Oct 122007: Oct 282008: Oct 272009: Oct 102010: Oct 202011: Oct 192012: Oct 62013: Oct 182014: Oct 29

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
2015Apr 24no dataMar 28no data
2014Apr 19Oct 29Apr 17Oct 31
2013May 4Oct 18Apr 25Oct 23
2012Apr 12Oct 6Mar 10Oct 7
2011Apr 18Oct 19Mar 29Oct 21
2010Apr 9Oct 20Mar 23Oct 28
2009Apr 12Oct 10Apr 8Oct 10
2008Apr 15Oct 27Apr 15Oct 27
2007Apr 14Oct 28Apr 10Nov 1
2006Apr 9Oct 12Mar 27Oct 12
2005May 3Oct 7Apr 2Oct 7
2004May 4Oct 2Apr 14Nov 4
2003Apr 10Oct 17Apr 10Oct 26

"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.