Last Frost Day

Frost history / Winfield Strother Fld Ap, KS

Winfield Strother Fld Ap, KS: frost dates by year

Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USW00013932, 1996 to 2024, measured from daily minimum temperatures.

Elevation 1,150 ft, 37.168, -97.037. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records

Summary at 32°F

Last spring frostFirst fall frost
MedianApr 10Oct 26
EarliestMar 9 (2012)Oct 7 (2012)
LatestMay 3 (2013)Nov 24 (2004)
Trend6.4 days later per decade4.1 days earlier per decade
Years with data2829

At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Apr 1 and the median first fall date is Nov 13.

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)

Mar 1Mar 16Mar 31Apr 15Apr 30May 152000201020201997: Apr 141998: Mar 211999: Mar 262000: Apr 82001: Apr 172002: Apr 52003: Apr 92004: Mar 162005: Mar 192006: Mar 282007: Apr 122008: Apr 142009: Apr 82010: Apr 82011: May 22012: Mar 92013: May 32014: May 22015: Apr 102016: Apr 82017: Mar 152018: Apr 192019: Apr 122020: Apr 182021: Apr 212022: Apr 262023: Apr 232024: Apr 4

First fall frost (32°F)

Sep 27Oct 12Oct 27Nov 11Nov 26Dec 112000201020201996: Nov 21997: Oct 251998: Nov 111999: Nov 242000: Oct 82001: Oct 162002: Oct 172003: Oct 262004: Nov 242005: Oct 242006: Oct 212007: Nov 12008: Oct 272009: Nov 182010: Nov 32011: Oct 192012: Oct 72013: Oct 182014: Oct 312015: Nov 82016: Nov 122017: Oct 272018: Oct 152019: Oct 122020: Oct 262021: Nov 122022: Oct 182023: Oct 72024: Oct 16

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
2024Apr 4Oct 16Mar 27Nov 25
2023Apr 23Oct 7Apr 23Oct 30
2022Apr 26Oct 18Apr 14Oct 19
2021Apr 21Nov 12Apr 21Nov 13
2020Apr 18Oct 26Mar 6Nov 13
2019Apr 12Oct 12Mar 31Oct 28
2018Apr 19Oct 15Apr 16Nov 9
2017Mar 15Oct 27Mar 13Oct 27
2016Apr 8Nov 12Apr 2Nov 19
2015Apr 10Nov 8Apr 4Nov 13
2014May 2Oct 31Apr 15Nov 1
2013May 3Oct 18Apr 24Nov 12
2012Mar 9Oct 7Mar 3Oct 27
2011May 2Oct 19Apr 5Nov 4
2010Apr 8Nov 3Mar 22Nov 5
2009Apr 8Nov 18Apr 7Nov 26
2008Apr 14Oct 27Mar 23Nov 20
2007Apr 12Nov 1Apr 8Nov 22
2006Mar 28Oct 21Mar 24Oct 22
2005Mar 19Oct 24Mar 19Nov 16
2004Mar 16Nov 24Feb 26Dec 1
2003Apr 9Oct 26Apr 9Nov 23
2002Apr 5Oct 17Apr 3Nov 16
2001Apr 17Oct 16Mar 26Nov 19
2000Apr 8Oct 8Mar 12Oct 8
1999Mar 26Nov 24Mar 15Nov 25
1998Mar 21Nov 11Mar 13Dec 12
1997Apr 14Oct 25Apr 13Nov 7
1996no dataNov 2no dataNov 17

"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.