Last Frost Day

Frost history / Olathe Johnson Co Exec Ap, KS

Olathe Johnson Co Exec Ap, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00003967, 1996 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,070 ft, 38.850, -94.739. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 8Oct 27
EarliestMar 9 (2012)Oct 7 (2000)
LatestMay 2 (2013)Nov 22 (2024)
Trend3.0 days later per decade1.0 days later per decade
Years with data2829

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Mar 26 and the median first fall date is Nov 11.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 152000201020201997: Apr 141998: Apr 21999: Mar 262000: Apr 82001: Apr 172002: Apr 52003: Apr 92004: Mar 312005: Mar 202006: Mar 262007: Apr 132008: Apr 142009: Apr 72010: Mar 222011: Apr 52012: Mar 92013: May 22014: Apr 182015: Apr 42016: Apr 92017: Mar 162018: Apr 162019: Apr 122020: Apr 182021: Apr 222022: Apr 92023: Apr 232024: Mar 28

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201996: Oct 231997: Oct 261998: Nov 61999: Oct 242000: Oct 72001: Oct 272002: Oct 312003: Oct 262004: Nov 132005: Nov 102006: Oct 132007: Nov 12008: Oct 272009: Oct 182010: Nov 52011: Oct 202012: Oct 72013: Oct 242014: Oct 312015: Oct 302016: Nov 132017: Oct 282018: Oct 152019: Oct 122020: Oct 262021: Nov 22022: Oct 182023: Oct 282024: Nov 22

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
2024Mar 28Nov 22Mar 27Nov 26
2023Apr 23Oct 28Mar 19Oct 30
2022Apr 9Oct 18Apr 1Oct 18
2021Apr 22Nov 2Mar 1Nov 13
2020Apr 18Oct 26Apr 13Nov 11
2019Apr 12Oct 12Mar 31Oct 30
2018Apr 16Oct 15Apr 16Nov 9
2017Mar 16Oct 28Mar 15Oct 28
2016Apr 9Nov 13Mar 25Nov 19
2015Apr 4Oct 30Mar 6Nov 21
2014Apr 18Oct 31Apr 15Nov 1
2013May 2Oct 24Mar 27Nov 11
2012Mar 9Oct 7Mar 5Nov 11
2011Apr 5Oct 20Mar 10Nov 17
2010Mar 22Nov 5Mar 4Nov 25
2009Apr 7Oct 18Apr 7Nov 30
2008Apr 14Oct 27Mar 24Oct 28
2007Apr 13Nov 1Apr 9Nov 7
2006Mar 26Oct 13Mar 24Nov 2
2005Mar 20Nov 10Mar 14Nov 16
2004Mar 31Nov 13Mar 12Nov 24
2003Apr 9Oct 26Apr 9Nov 23
2002Apr 5Oct 31Apr 4Nov 1
2001Apr 17Oct 27Mar 27Oct 27
2000Apr 8Oct 7Mar 28Oct 8
1999Mar 26Oct 24Mar 15Nov 25
1998Apr 2Nov 6Mar 21Dec 7
1997Apr 14Oct 26Apr 13Oct 27
1996no dataOct 23no dataNov 2

"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.