Frost history / Sioux Falls 14 Nne, SD
Sioux Falls 14 Nne, SD: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00004990, 2003 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 1,594 ft, 43.735, -96.622. Download the data (JSON) · NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | May 2 | Oct 5 |
| Earliest | Apr 9 (2003) | Sep 15 (2007) |
| Latest | May 22 (2022) | Oct 16 (2021) |
| Trend | 3.5 days later per decade | 7.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 22 | 22 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 22 and the median first fall date is Oct 14.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Apr 21 | Oct 7 | Apr 21 | Oct 15 |
| 2023 | Apr 25 | Oct 7 | Apr 25 | Oct 27 |
| 2022 | May 22 | Oct 7 | Apr 26 | Oct 8 |
| 2021 | May 4 | Oct 16 | Apr 22 | Oct 31 |
| 2020 | May 10 | Oct 2 | Apr 21 | Oct 2 |
| 2019 | Apr 28 | Oct 11 | Apr 14 | Oct 12 |
| 2018 | Apr 28 | Oct 4 | Apr 20 | Oct 11 |
| 2017 | May 2 | Oct 16 | Apr 28 | Oct 27 |
| 2016 | May 14 | Oct 7 | Apr 12 | Oct 13 |
| 2015 | Apr 22 | Oct 16 | Apr 22 | Oct 16 |
| 2014 | May 16 | Oct 4 | May 16 | Oct 30 |
| 2013 | May 12 | Oct 13 | May 12 | Oct 22 |
| 2012 | Apr 17 | Sep 23 | Apr 11 | Sep 23 |
| 2011 | May 3 | Sep 23 | May 2 | Oct 19 |
| 2010 | May 9 | Oct 3 | Apr 8 | Oct 28 |
| 2009 | Apr 28 | Oct 7 | Apr 11 | Oct 9 |
| 2008 | May 4 | Oct 14 | Apr 29 | Oct 16 |
| 2007 | Apr 14 | Sep 15 | Apr 13 | Oct 28 |
| 2006 | Apr 26 | Sep 20 | Mar 26 | Oct 11 |
| 2005 | May 4 | Sep 29 | May 3 | Oct 7 |
| 2004 | May 14 | Oct 1 | May 3 | Oct 2 |
| 2003 | Apr 9 | Sep 25 | Apr 9 | Oct 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 1991–2020 frost probabilities.