Wichita, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003928, 1954 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,335 ft, 37.654, -97.442. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

	Last spring frost	First fall frost
Median	Apr 11	Oct 27
Earliest	Mar 10 (2012)	Sep 22 (1995)
Latest	May 13 (1966)	Nov 16 (1994)
Trend	little change (less than half a day per decade)	little change (less than half a day per decade)
Years with data	71	71

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 7.

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
2024	Mar 28	Oct 16	Mar 27	Nov 25
2023	Apr 23	Oct 29	Mar 19	Oct 30
2022	Apr 26	Oct 18	Apr 9	Oct 19
2021	Apr 21	Nov 12	Mar 2	Nov 13
2020	Apr 18	Oct 25	Apr 15	Oct 26
2019	Apr 12	Oct 12	Mar 31	Oct 29
2018	Apr 19	Oct 15	Apr 16	Nov 9
2017	Mar 15	Oct 27	Mar 14	Oct 28
2016	Apr 2	Nov 12	Apr 2	Nov 19
2015	Apr 4	Nov 13	Apr 4	Nov 21
2014	Apr 18	Oct 31	Apr 15	Nov 11
2013	Apr 24	Oct 18	Apr 24	Nov 12
2012	Mar 10	Oct 8	Mar 9	Oct 27
2011	Apr 5	Oct 19	Mar 15	Oct 20
2010	Apr 8	Nov 5	Mar 22	Nov 18
2009	Apr 7	Oct 27	Apr 7	Nov 18
2008	Apr 14	Oct 27	Apr 14	Oct 28
2007	Apr 15	Nov 1	Apr 8	Nov 7
2006	Mar 28	Oct 21	Mar 24	Oct 22
2005	Apr 30	Oct 24	Mar 19	Nov 16
2004	Apr 11	Nov 4	Mar 2	Nov 24
2003	Apr 9	Oct 26	Apr 9	Nov 7
2002	Apr 4	Oct 17	Apr 3	Nov 22
2001	Apr 18	Oct 27	Mar 26	Nov 19
2000	Apr 8	Oct 8	Mar 16	Oct 8
1999	Apr 18	Oct 24	Mar 26	Dec 5
1998	Mar 21	Nov 11	Mar 21	Dec 8
1997	Apr 14	Oct 26	Apr 14	Nov 6
1996	Apr 6	Oct 31	Apr 6	Nov 11
1995	Apr 27	Sep 22	Mar 30	Nov 2
1994	May 1	Nov 16	Apr 6	Nov 23
1993	Apr 16	Oct 27	Apr 2	Oct 27
1992	Apr 3	Nov 4	Apr 2	Nov 4
1991	Mar 30	Oct 29	Mar 14	Oct 30
1990	Apr 11	Oct 10	Mar 26	Nov 5
1989	Apr 11	Oct 18	Apr 11	Oct 19
1988	Mar 30	Nov 16	Mar 19	Nov 20
1987	Apr 5	Nov 9	Apr 4	Nov 10
1986	Apr 16	Nov 9	Mar 21	Nov 10
1985	Apr 1	Oct 1	Mar 17	Nov 19
1984	Apr 30	Sep 30	Mar 30	Nov 11
1983	Apr 15	Nov 10	Apr 15	Nov 11
1982	Apr 21	Oct 20	Apr 6	Nov 3
1981	Mar 23	Oct 23	Mar 19	Nov 9
1980	Apr 14	Oct 29	Mar 21	Oct 29
1979	Apr 6	Nov 3	Apr 6	Nov 10
1978	Apr 21	Nov 6	Mar 26	Nov 18
1977	Apr 5	Nov 10	Mar 22	Nov 21
1976	May 3	Oct 8	Apr 1	Oct 19
1975	Apr 12	Oct 18	Apr 3	Oct 25
1974	Apr 15	Nov 6	Apr 5	Nov 6
1973	Apr 11	Oct 29	Apr 10	Oct 29
1972	Apr 8	Oct 19	Apr 4	Oct 19
1971	Apr 14	Oct 31	Apr 7	Nov 6
1970	Apr 5	Oct 16	Apr 5	Nov 5
1969	Mar 30	Oct 14	Mar 30	Nov 4
1968	Apr 5	Oct 28	Apr 5	Nov 11
1967	Apr 27	Nov 1	Mar 18	Nov 3
1966	May 13	Oct 16	Apr 21	Oct 16
1965	Apr 28	Oct 24	Mar 26	Nov 28
1964	Apr 9	Oct 9	Apr 8	Nov 19
1963	Mar 21	Nov 1	Mar 21	Nov 13
1962	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 2	Nov 5
1961	Apr 17	Oct 26	Mar 9	Nov 3
1960	Apr 3	Oct 20	Mar 25	Nov 9
1959	Apr 22	Oct 27	Apr 13	Nov 5
1958	Mar 31	Oct 28	Mar 20	Nov 18
1957	Apr 13	Oct 25	Apr 13	Oct 25
1956	Apr 17	Nov 8	Apr 17	Nov 8
1955	Apr 7	Oct 24	Mar 28	Nov 2
1954	Apr 1	Oct 31	Apr 1	Nov 1

"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.