Syracuse, NE: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00258395, 1951 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,100 ft, 40.666, -96.189. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 26	Oct 7
Earliest	Apr 6 (1987)	Sep 16 (1993)
Latest	May 23 (2022)	Oct 29 (1963)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	1.0 days later per decade
Years with data	72	72

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 15 and the median first fall date is Oct 17.

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