Seward, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00257715, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,445 ft, 40.900, -97.091. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 23	Oct 13
Earliest	Mar 30 (1991)	Sep 19 (1991)
Latest	May 16 (2014)	Nov 5 (1993)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	70	69

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 14 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.

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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 9	Oct 23	Apr 9	Oct 30
2024	Apr 22	Oct 14	Apr 22	Oct 16
2023	Apr 25	Oct 28	Apr 25	Oct 28
2022	no data	Oct 8	no data	Oct 8
2017	May 1	Oct 11	Apr 27	Oct 28
2016	Apr 13	Oct 13	Apr 12	Oct 13
2015	Apr 23	Oct 29	Apr 23	Oct 30
2014	May 16	Oct 11	Apr 16	Oct 30
2013	May 4	Oct 19	Apr 26	Oct 24
2012	Apr 11	Oct 6	Mar 10	Oct 7
2011	May 3	Oct 19	Apr 5	Oct 20
2010	Apr 17	Oct 19	Mar 25	Oct 28
2009	Apr 28	Oct 4	Apr 14	Oct 10
2008	Apr 28	no data	Apr 15	no data
2007	Apr 15	Oct 23	Apr 9	Oct 28
2006	Apr 26	Oct 12	Mar 26	Oct 12
2005	May 3	Sep 29	May 3	Oct 7
2004	May 3	Oct 2	May 3	Oct 2
2003	Apr 10	Oct 17	Apr 10	Oct 26
2002	Apr 25	Oct 13	Apr 5	Oct 13
2001	Apr 24	Oct 6	Apr 17	Oct 6
2000	Apr 21	Oct 6	Apr 8	Oct 6
1999	Apr 18	Oct 4	Apr 18	Oct 20
1998	Apr 17	Oct 22	Apr 17	Nov 6
1997	May 13	Oct 21	May 13	Oct 26
1996	Apr 23	Oct 24	Apr 13	Oct 30
1995	May 2	Sep 22	Apr 13	Sep 22
1994	May 1	Oct 25	Apr 6	Oct 25
1993	Apr 5	Nov 5	Apr 5	Nov 5
1992	Apr 27	Oct 16	Apr 22	Oct 17
1991	Mar 30	Sep 19	Mar 30	Oct 6
1990	Apr 28	Oct 10	Apr 17	Oct 10
1989	May 6	Oct 18	Apr 15	Oct 20
1988	Apr 27	Oct 4	Apr 18	Oct 28
1987	Apr 5	Oct 10	Apr 4	Oct 11
1986	Apr 22	Oct 12	Apr 22	Oct 13
1985	Apr 9	Oct 1	Apr 8	Nov 2
1984	Apr 5	Sep 26	Apr 1	Sep 29
1983	Apr 19	Oct 13	Apr 18	Nov 10
1982	Apr 22	Oct 20	Apr 21	Oct 21
1981	Apr 5	Oct 22	Mar 23	Oct 22
1980	May 8	Oct 3	Apr 14	Oct 26
1979	May 11	Oct 13	Apr 9	Oct 13
1978	Apr 21	Oct 7	Apr 21	Nov 14
1977	Apr 5	Oct 9	Apr 5	Oct 12
1976	May 3	Oct 8	May 3	Oct 16
1975	Apr 20	Sep 25	Apr 4	Oct 25
1974	Apr 16	Oct 2	Apr 8	Oct 15
1973	May 15	no data	Apr 11	no data
1972	Apr 9	Oct 7	Apr 9	Oct 18
1971	Apr 7	Oct 31	Apr 6	Oct 31
1970	Apr 23	Oct 9	Apr 13	Oct 29
1969	Apr 6	Oct 14	Mar 31	Oct 14
1968	Apr 24	Oct 19	Apr 5	Nov 3
1967	May 4	Oct 25	May 4	Oct 28
1966	May 9	Oct 5	Apr 21	Oct 16
1965	Apr 28	Sep 24	Mar 30	Oct 24
1964	Apr 9	Oct 9	Apr 8	Oct 9
1963	Apr 23	Oct 29	Apr 23	Nov 1
1962	Apr 15	Oct 25	Apr 15	Oct 25
1961	May 2	Oct 26	Apr 18	Nov 2
1960	Apr 30	Oct 19	Mar 26	Oct 19
1959	Apr 22	Oct 9	Apr 13	Oct 17
1958	Apr 29	Oct 24	Apr 29	Oct 26
1957	Apr 14	Oct 25	Apr 14	Oct 25
1956	Apr 30	Oct 26	Apr 24	Nov 8
1955	Apr 6	Oct 24	Apr 6	Oct 24
1954	May 5	Oct 16	May 3	Oct 30
1953	May 14	Oct 27	Apr 20	Nov 5
1952	Apr 15	Oct 6	Apr 10	Oct 6
1951	Apr 22	Sep 28	Apr 16	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.