Frost history / Elm Springs 3 Ese, SD
Elm Springs 3 Ese, SD: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00392647, 1988 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 2,645 ft, 44.319, -102.468. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 11 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 15 (2007) | Sep 10 (1989) |
| Latest | May 25 (2002) | Oct 22 (1994) |
| Trend | little change (less than half a day per decade) | 4.7 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 32 | 30 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is May 2 and the median first fall date is Oct 8.
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 29 | Oct 13 | Apr 20 | Oct 13 |
| 2024 | May 6 | Oct 15 | May 6 | Oct 25 |
| 2023 | May 2 | Oct 7 | Apr 30 | Oct 7 |
| 2022 | May 22 | Oct 8 | May 22 | Oct 18 |
| 2021 | May 11 | Oct 14 | May 4 | Oct 14 |
| 2020 | May 17 | no data | Apr 20 | no data |
| 2019 | May 7 | Oct 3 | May 2 | Oct 3 |
| 2018 | Apr 26 | Sep 26 | Apr 25 | Oct 4 |
| 2017 | May 21 | Oct 4 | Apr 30 | Oct 4 |
| 2016 | May 15 | Oct 7 | May 14 | Oct 7 |
| 2015 | May 11 | Oct 16 | Apr 24 | Oct 28 |
| 2014 | May 15 | Sep 12 | Apr 17 | Oct 29 |
| 2013 | May 6 | Oct 5 | May 3 | Oct 16 |
| 2012 | Apr 22 | Oct 5 | Apr 11 | Oct 5 |
| 2011 | May 3 | Oct 18 | Apr 21 | Oct 19 |
| 2010 | May 13 | Oct 13 | May 8 | Oct 28 |
| 2009 | May 16 | Oct 6 | May 16 | Oct 9 |
| 2008 | May 11 | no data | May 4 | no data |
| 2007 | Apr 15 | Sep 14 | Apr 14 | Sep 14 |
| 2006 | May 10 | Sep 19 | May 5 | Oct 11 |
| 2005 | May 12 | Oct 5 | May 3 | Oct 6 |
| 2004 | May 14 | Oct 1 | May 2 | Oct 16 |
| 2003 | May 20 | Sep 30 | May 20 | Sep 30 |
| 2002 | May 25 | no data | May 24 | no data |
| 2001 | Apr 24 | Oct 5 | Apr 24 | Oct 5 |
| 2000 | May 13 | Sep 24 | May 13 | Sep 24 |
| 1994 | Apr 30 | Oct 22 | Apr 28 | Oct 23 |
| 1993 | Apr 28 | Sep 13 | Apr 21 | Sep 13 |
| 1992 | May 25 | Sep 27 | Apr 21 | Oct 7 |
| 1991 | May 5 | Sep 17 | May 5 | Sep 17 |
| 1990 | May 17 | Sep 22 | May 9 | Oct 6 |
| 1989 | May 6 | Sep 10 | May 5 | Oct 16 |
| 1988 | no data | Oct 3 | no data | Oct 27 |
"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.